Keri Hulme, The Bone People

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"Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth..."

Keri Hulme, The Bone People

"The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons."

Keri Hulme, The Bone People

"Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why."

Keri Hulme, The Bone People