Kamila Shamsie, Kartography Quotes

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?

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

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.

How do you eat your roots?

This world is out of date

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

I still hear the world spinning.

If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.

Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

All around us, Karachi kept moving