Skip to content

Father Quote by Hanif Kureishi

Download Open image
““He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even started to be grown-ups together. There was this piece of heaven, this little girl he’d carried around the shop on his shoulders; and then one day she was gone, replaced by a foreigner, an uncooperative woman he didn’t know how to speak to. Being so confused, so weak, so in love, he chose strength and drove her away from himself. The last years he spent wondering where she’d gone, and slowly came to realise that she would never return, and that the husband he’d chosen for her was an idiot.””

Hanif Kureishi

2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings)

More by Hanif Kureishi

Explore all 129 Hanif Kureishi quotes

More Father quotes

Browse all 16,116 Father quotes