Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.
Hanif KureishiIf you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
Hanif KureishiChildren, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. Theyโll sit on anyoneโs knee.
Hanif KureishiAnna 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.
Hanif KureishiSecrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?
Hanif Kureishi