Quotes by Kamila Shamsie

“Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that some...”

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

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

“We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So theres a beautiful superficiality to our relationship which sometimes gets covered up by all the genuine aff...”

“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 y...”

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

“There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadnt learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart.”

“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 plumme...”

“When the war's over, I'll be kind.”

“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.”

“I still hear the world spinning.”

“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 didnt really make it”

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

“You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.”

“I didnt 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 defianc...”

“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?”

“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.”

“This world is out of date”

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

“Bijli fails in the dead of night / Wont help to call I need a light / Youre in Karachi now / Oh, oh youre in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / Youre...”