Kamila Shamsie

How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when…

— Kamila Shamsie

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…

— Kamila Shamsie

“I am not an Englishman, nor are you. Nor can we ever be, regardless of our foxtrots, our straight bats, our Jolly…

— Kamila Shamsie

“Its a moonsmile. No light of its own unless there's a sun for it to reflect off”

— kamila shamsie

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

— Kamila Shamsie

That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and…

— Kamila Shamsie

“He had tears in his eyes even as he told her not to cry.”

— Kamila Shamsie

“At Vipers, when the German gunners shot Afroze who chose to cry out his grief knowing the consequences rather than bear the…

— Kamila Shamsie

If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

— Kamila Shamsie

So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.

— Kamila Shamsie

Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?

— Kamila Shamsie

“The shaking had stopped, outwardly, but her mind couldn't hold a thought for any length of time without splintering apart. She took…

— Kamila Shamsie

“Why didn’t you stay?’ she has whispered against the unyielding stone. Why didn’t you stay? She pressed the berry against her lips.…

— Kamila Shamsie

“All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.”

— Kamila Shamsie

“But just a few minutes walk away there was a park lined with Banyan trees, their ancient overground roots more enduring than…

— Kamila Shamsie

“I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish…

— Kamila Shamsie

Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.

— Kamila Shamsie

“By the time the first light appeared in the sky she felt herself transformed by the desire to be known, completely.”

— Kamila Shamsie

“On those days, Hasan understood what Ami had meant when she said that there are memories that cannot be spoken of, because…

— Kamila Shamsie

“Everything else you can live around, but not death. Death you have to live through.”

— Kamila Shamsie

“We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.”

— Kamila Shamsie

This world is out of date

— Kamila Shamsie

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can…

— Kamila Shamsie

Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi now /…

— Kamila Shamsie

“Grief manifested itself in ways that felt like anything but grief; grief obliterated all feelings but grief; grief made a twin wear…

— Kamila Shamsie