Bone people need love too

This is a book I finished reading recently.
It was very good, very "raw" meaning it seemed like real life.
i liked it.

The Bone people Keri Hulme (03-05-09)


“he just needs people to accept him.”
This is someone I shall be able to call friend.
Yet nobody’s stomped on my heart except family, so why ama I sos mistrustful of people?
“if it’s important, you’ll find a way to tell me, and I’ll find a way to understanad.”
In the way of true joy.
The smell of sea was the smell of blood.
The smarter you are, the more you know. The less reason you have to trust or love or confide. ;(
He closes his eyes and waits for an idea, but it’s too concentrate for long.
“Christ alive, she’s a strange lady. What did she say? The world’s a fiery wayward place, why has it eaten me?”
“even considering I know how much heh gets whacked and all.”
A supple grin, an easy grin, a white flag of a grin for their white flag of laughter.
Bloody mixed up pair. She thinks, fashed in the head and still making it in the heart.
“you should first make god’s heart yours.”
There is no discord in love. There is no enemy in love.
Whee, outlawry and small wars made to order; mysteries and pandemonium (what the hell did I do before the Gillayleys arrived on the scene?)
One thing about having Himi for your child: you learn what people meant but didn’t say.
“I am Kerewin the stony and I never cry. I want to like or even love you, but I don’t trust anyone now.”
“a family can be the bane of one’s existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one’s existence.”
Don’t come any closer to me, just close enough to be always welcome.
“while you’re alive, you’re hurting.”
Nothing to carry more substantial than memories, and maybe that’s the the heaviest baggage of all.
You learned not to hear too much in prison.
Thinking about old horrors somehow lessens the impact of the new ones.
“beaten by circumstance.”
“ah, the habit of frugality is hard to lose.”
..aand smiles as he sleeps.
“when the dead are dead, you cannot bring them back. Not by memory, or desire, or love.”
“it was necessary to spark a little anger in you, to begin the healing.”
“she was a terrifying old woman and more knowledge than any one person should have.”
Moko—maori signature design, facial tattoo pattern
“a man can find satisfaction enough “It is a relief to return to eyeless tongueless bush. And home is Joe Joe of the hard hands and sweet love.