Kamila Shamsie Quotes
Kamila Shamsie Quotes
This world is out of date
4914I still hear the world spinning.
4771 When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
4546 My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark. - Broken Verses
3273 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.
2498 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.
2309 If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.
1890 We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there’s a beautiful superficiality to our relationship which sometimes gets covered up by all the genuine affection flowing back and forth.
3851 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
4929 You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.
1853 I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun.
3550 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.
1433 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.
4841 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
3017 Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.
3463 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?
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