“Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back.”

“... sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.”

“... the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal.”

“Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide.”

“It's a strange failure of the literary world that Updike never quite received his due. Despite winning two Pulitzers and two National Book Awards and countless other awards and honours, he was deni...”

“I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.”

“I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool.”