185 Quotes by Hanif Kureishi

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don’t want it badly enough, you make excuses.

Surely you’ve noticed that most people live without love, spending their lives trying to find people they’re not turned on by.

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I’ve got a feeling there’s something between you.

I was falling in love with myself. Not that beauty, or life itself, means much if you’re in a room on your own. Heaven is other people.

I’ve never had any desire to be good. I don’t like goodness particularly.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You know, when you end a relationship and say you fell out of love, you actually mean you were never really in love. The past is a river, not a statue.

One day everything changed. In the morning things were one way and by bedtime another. I was seventeen.

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.