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 KureishiOur lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.
Hanif Kureishi...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.
Hanif KureishiIf you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
Hanif KureishiAll 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.
Hanif Kureishi