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.

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.

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

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.

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

How do you eat your roots?

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.

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

Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.

I still hear the world spinning.

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

This world is out of date

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

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

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

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

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.

All around us, Karachi kept moving

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.

Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn’t make anything less valuable.

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.

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

Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with us?” and “What are we doing out there in the world?

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

So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn’t really make it

There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn’t learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart.

If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he's always known to be a dream, then he's among the fortunate ones.

When the war's over, I'll be kind.

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

My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses