Hanif Kureishi Intimacy Quotes & Sayings

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure! — Hanif Kureishi

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them. — Hanif Kureishi

Not everything can be achieved alone. — Hanif Kureishi

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them. — Hanif Kureishi

Any Advance in wisdom requires a good dose of shamelessness. Intimacy — Hanif Kureishi

Dear God, teach me to be careless. — Hanif Kureishi

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn't. You just end up thinking, who is this person? — Hanif Kureishi

Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. — Hanif Kureishi

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history. — Hanif Kureishi

To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's web, you will want to know every thread ... Pleasures no longer come to you, but there are pickings to be had if you can learn to scavenge for them" ("The Body") — Hanif Kureishi

Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tilt - it isn't enough. And if it isn't, it isn't. There's no living with that. The world is made from our imagination; our eyes enliven it, as our hands give it shape. Wanting makes it thrive; meaning is what you put in, not what you extract. You only see what you are inclined to see, and no more. We have to make the new. — Hanif Kureishi