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.
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.
- 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.
If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you. - Kamila Shamsie
If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.
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
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 …
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…
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.
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.
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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