Kamila Shamsie quotes

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places. (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? View quote
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 schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans. View quote
Kamila Shamsie
Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same. View quote
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 alive because neither of us will let the other forget. View quote
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So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do. View quote
Kamila Shamsie
Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on? View quote
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 you know, I will never die of a broken heart. View quote
Kamila Shamsie
How do you eat your roots? View quote
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This world is out of date. View quote
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I still hear the world spinning. (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. View quote
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If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you. View quote
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Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education. View quote
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...I am absolutely not someone who thinks that politics is separate from the most intimate details of people's lives... View quote
Kamila Shamsie
I tend to be an optimist about human nature but a political pessimist...I think we're living in very, very scary times and we have to find ways of looking squarely at it and finding reasons for optimism. View quote
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I don't have much time for the idea that art is some languorous thing on the sidelines, and that you have to wait 50 years before you address a subject... View quote
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The thing you know in the abstract, but which you have to see, is the vastness of the place and how little relationship one side of it has to another. Mostly, the landscape is just unbelievably beautiful. You do a lot of looking and not that much thinking. View quote
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Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep. View quote
Kamila Shamsie