Kamila Shamsie Quotes

• There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

  Kamila Shamsie

  True Love, Happy Anniversary, Miracle

  Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Be You, Ifs

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.7, A&C Black

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• For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

  Kamila Shamsie

  Jealousy, Jealous, Clouds

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.13, A&C Black

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• How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Flower, School, Boys

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• Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Kissing, Love Is, Flames

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• Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Pride, Names, Tree

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Salt and Saffron”, p.16, A&C Black

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• The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms

  Kamila Shamsie

  Different, Disappear, Form

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.300, A&C Black

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• We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Memories, Thinking, Should Have

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.66, A&C Black

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• Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Deep Within, Marrow

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.45, A&C Black

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• When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

  Kamila Shamsie

  Broken, Verses

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• Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Smart, Grateful, Heart

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• So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Promise, Used

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• Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?

  Kamila Shamsie

  Stronger

  Kamila Shamsie (2004). “Kartography”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Dream, Trying, Way

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• Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Decision, Prolonging, Higher Education

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Salt and Saffron”, p.16, A&C Black

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• That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?

  Kamila Shamsie

  Past, Years, Two

  Kamila Shamsie (2014). “A God in Every Stone”, p.42, A&C Black

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• How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Morning, Heart, Broken

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Salt and Saffron”, p.46, A&C Black

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• How do you eat your roots?

  Kamila Shamsie

  Roots

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.76, A&C Black

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• Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Denial, World, Gestures

  Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Fall, Air, Voice

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.31, A&C Black

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• This world is out of date

  Kamila Shamsie

  World, This World

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi now / Oh, oh you’re in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You’re in Karachi now

  Kamila Shamsie

  Fall, Night, Light

  Kamila Shamsie (2010). “Kartographie”, p.76, ebook Berlin Verlag

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• The world won’t get more or less terrible if we’re indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate,’ Kim said. ‘Though it’s possible it will seem slightly less terrible if there are marshmallows in the hot chocolate.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Chocolate, Hot, World

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• They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Thinking, Needs, Return

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• I still hear the world spinning.

  Kamila Shamsie

  World, Spinning, Stills

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.5, A&C Black

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