{"author":"Keri Hulme","author_id":"Keri+Hulme","total_quotes":8,"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth...","author":"Keri Hulme","tags":["nature","ocean","sea","waves"],"id":3010,"author_id":"Keri+Hulme"},{"text":"I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.","author":"Keri Hulme","tags":["discontent","ocean","sea","self"],"id":23441,"author_id":"Keri+Hulme"},{"text":"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.","author":"Keri Hulme","tags":["curiosity"],"id":152778,"author_id":"Keri+Hulme"},{"text":"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.","author":"Keri Hulme","tags":["clouds","dragons","nature","sky"],"id":244575,"author_id":"Keri+Hulme"},{"text":"She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water.","author":"Keri Hulme","tags":["graceful","woman","womanhood","women"],"id":245225,"author_id":"Keri+Hulme"},{"text":"Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no compass for my ever disoriented soul, only ever beckoning ghost lights. In the one sure direction, to the one sure end.","author":"Keri Hulme","tags":["compass","stars","wandering"],"id":416517,"author_id":"Keri+Hulme"},{"text":"The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.","author":"Keri Hulme","tags":["inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life"],"id":441172,"author_id":"Keri+Hulme"},{"text":"A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.","author":"Keri Hulme","tags":["dysfunctional-families","family","relationships"],"id":454597,"author_id":"Keri+Hulme"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}