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

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Samia, it appeared, had become one of those desis who drink Pepsi in Pakistan and lassi in London.

Samia, it appeared, had become one of those desis who drink Pepsi in Pakistan and lassi in London.

Kamila Shamsie quotes: When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

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

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

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

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

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

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Difficult but worth it that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: ...and i will step out of the mirage, into your arms, to lose myself and find myself inside you.

...and i will step out of the mirage, into your arms, to lose myself and find myself inside you.

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Its a moonsmile. No light of its own unless there's a sun for it to reflect off

Its a moonsmile. No light of its own unless there's a sun for it to reflect off

Kamila Shamsie quotes: You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn't make anything less valuable.

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.

All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.

Kamila Shamsie quotes: He put his arm around me. That was all. He put his arm around me and we didn't say a word.

He put his arm around me. That was all. He put his arm around me and we didn't say a word.

Kamila Shamsie quotes: How do you eat your roots?

How do you eat your roots?

Kamila Shamsie quotes: 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.

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.

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Grief never leaves, It merely sinks into you.

Grief never leaves, It merely sinks into you.

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

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: All around us, Karachi kept moving

All around us, Karachi kept moving

Kamila Shamsie quotes: The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn't learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart.

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

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

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Don't, please, don't disappear.

Don't, please, don't disappear.

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.

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.

Kamila Shamsie quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Seeped into his bones from decades of sitting outdoors in

Seeped into his bones from decades of sitting outdoors in

Kamila Shamsie quotes: If a man is to die defending a field, let the field be his field, the land his land, the people his people.

If a man is to die defending a field, let the field be his field, the land his land, the people his people.

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

Kamila Shamsie quotes: 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.

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

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Desiring the unattainable; that's all this is about,

Desiring the unattainable; that's all this is about,

Kamila Shamsie quotes: This world is out of date

This world is out of date

Kamila Shamsie quotes: I still hear the world spinning.

I still hear the world spinning.

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

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: This is the worst of our ways of rememberingthis tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

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.

Kamila Shamsie quotes: We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.

We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.

Kamila Shamsie 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?

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?

Kamila Shamsie quotes: Barriers made of metal could turn fluid when touched simultaneously by people on either side ...

Barriers made of metal could turn fluid when touched simultaneously by people on either side ...

Kamila Shamsie quotes: You can only know how you feel in the here and now, not how you'll feel years, months or even days down the line.

You can only know how you feel in the here and now, not how you'll feel years, months or even days down the line.

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

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

Kamila Shamsie quotes: He had tears in his eyes even as he told her not to cry.

He had tears in his eyes even as he told her not to cry.

Kamila Shamsie quotes: He hung up so gently, I didn't even hear the click.

He hung up so gently, I didn't even hear the click.