Quotes from Mau
Mau was good at reading important things. He could read the sea, the weather, the tracks of animals, tattoos and the night sky. (N)
'How can he rise up every morning and decide to be him?' (N)
'People want lies to live by.' (N)
'Why do you ask so many questions, Mau?'
'Because I want so many answers!' (N)
'I want to know why. Why everything. I don't know the answers, but a few days ago I didn't know there were questions.' (N)
That's what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there's food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so we don't have to think, because if we think we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be. (N)
'... it takes a lifetime to learn how to die.' (N)
'If anyone is going to die, it should be me. I've died before. I know how it's done.' (N)
'How can he rise up every morning and decide to be him?' (N)
'People want lies to live by.' (N)
'Why do you ask so many questions, Mau?'
'Because I want so many answers!' (N)
'I want to know why. Why everything. I don't know the answers, but a few days ago I didn't know there were questions.' (N)
That's what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there's food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so we don't have to think, because if we think we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be. (N)
'... it takes a lifetime to learn how to die.' (N)
'If anyone is going to die, it should be me. I've died before. I know how it's done.' (N)
