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.
If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you. - Kamila Shamsie
If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.
- Kamila Shamsie
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
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.
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 … - Kamila Shamsie
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 …
The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms - Kamila Shamsie
The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms
Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education. - Kamila Shamsie
Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.
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
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.
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 school… - Kamila Shamsie
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 school…
Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same. - Kamila Shamsie
Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.
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
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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