Kamila Shamsie Quotes

There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn’t learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart.

I still hear the world spinning.

I'll fall.''You wont fall.''I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.'As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.

Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.

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 haunts you.

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs.

Why have the English remained to English? Throughout India's history conquerors have come from elsewhere, and all of them --- Turk, Arab, Hun, Mongol, Persian --- have become Indian. If --- when ---this Pakistan happens, those Muslims who leave Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad to go there, They will be leaving their homes. But when the English leave, they'll be going home.

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