Intimacy
Hanif Kureishi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?”
“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.”
“You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.”
“How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.”
“Love cannot be measured by its duration...”
“Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.”
“Dear God, teach me to be careless.”
“If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.”
“What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.”
“I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you; too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?”
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