List of Hanif Kureishi Quotes

For Mum, Life Was Fundamentally Hell. You Went Blind, You Got Raped, People Forgot Your Birthday, Nixon Got Elected, Your Husband Fled With A Blonde From Beckenham, And Then You Got Old, You Couldn't Walk And You Died.

Children, Who Have Yet To Learn Our Ways, Are Notoriously Promiscuous In Their Affection. They’ll Sit On Anyone’s Knee.

Like You, She Will Have Been With Other People, But I've Got A Feeling There's Something Between You.

No Amount Of Promises Can Guarantee Love

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?

My Guess Is That She Is Uncomfortable In Such An Intransigent World But Is Unable To Live Accordingly To Her Own Desire.

I'm Always Writing. I'm An Obsessive. It's Not Because I'm A Disciplined Person. It's Because I'm Crazy About It.

If Jealousy Was The Vindaloo Of Love, I'd Imagined Her Tongue Burning, And Such A Fire Forcing Her To Spill Her Truth.

All The Same, My Depression And Self-hatred, My Desire To Mutilate Myself With Broken Bottles, My Numbness And Crying Fits, My Inability To Get Out Of Bed For Days And Days, The Feeling Of The World Moving In To Crush Me, Went On And On. But I Knew I Wouldn't Go Mad, Even If That Release, That Letting-go, Was A Freedom I Desired. I Was Waiting For Myself To Heal.

But In Love Each Moment Is Magnified, And Every Gesture, Word And Syllable Is Examined Like A Speech By The President.

Anna Karenina Is Just A Story About A Woman Falling In Love With A Bloke Who Is Not Her Husband. Its Gossip, Rubbish - On The Other Hand, Its The Deepest Story There Could Be About Social Transgression, About Love, Betrayal, Duty, Children.

I Can't Sleep With You Tonight, Baby, My Head's All Messed Up, You've No Idea. It's Somewhere Else And It's Full Of Voices And Songs And Bad Things.