Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow. — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know,… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
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… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“I am not an Englishman, nor are you. Nor can we ever be, regardless of our foxtrots, our straight bats, our Jolly Goods and… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“Its a moonsmile. No light of its own unless there's a sun for it to reflect off” — kamila shamsie Copy Share Image
“If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“At Vipers, when the German gunners shot Afroze who chose to cry out his grief knowing the consequences rather than bear the death of… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do. — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“The shaking had stopped, outwardly, but her mind couldn't hold a thought for any length of time without splintering apart. She took a deep… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“Why didn’t you stay?’ she has whispered against the unyielding stone. Why didn’t you stay? She pressed the berry against her lips. Why didn’t… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“But just a few minutes walk away there was a park lined with Banyan trees, their ancient overground roots more enduring than wire rusting… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
