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

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

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

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

- Kamila Shamsie

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

- 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…

- Kamila Shamsie

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

- 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?

- Kamila Shamsie