Quotes by Kamila Shamsie

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.

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.

If I wasnt me, you wouldnt be you.

How do you eat your roots?

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

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.

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs.

Abdullah to Kim Burton: War is like disease. Until youve had it, you dont know it. But no. Thats a bad comparison. At least with disease everyone thinks it might happen to them one day. You have a pain here, swelling there, a cold that stays and stays. You start to think maybe this is something really bad. But war - countries (America) like yours they always fight wars, but always somewhere else. The disease always happens somewhere else. Tts why you fight wars more than anyone else; because you understand war least of all. You need to understand it better.

All around us, Karachi kept moving

Difficult but worth it-- thats how my mother had once describe life with Omi.

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

The world wont get more or less terrible if were indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.

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?

Why have the English remained to English? Throughout Indias history conquerors have come from elsewhere, and all of them --- Turk, Arab, Hun, Mongol, Persian --- have become Indian. If --- when ---this Pakistan happens, those Muslims who leave Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad to go there, They will be leaving their homes. But when the English leave, theyll be going home.

“This world is out of date”

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