However angry him, however much wanted humiliate Terry, suddenly saw h — Hanif Kureishi, Buddha Suburbia

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However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity in his eyes, and in the way he tried to smile – such innocence in the way he wanted to understand me, and such possibility of pain, along with the implicit assumption that he wouldn't be harmed – that I pulled away.

Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

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