Kamila Shamsie Quotes

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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 can't see / Is this illusion or KESC / You're in Karachi now

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

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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?

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