Kamila Shamsie Quotes

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.

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?

The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.

All around us, Karachi kept moving

Abdullah to Kim Burton: "War is like disease. Until you've had it, you don't know it. But no. That's a bad comparison. At least with disease everyone thinks it might happen to them one day. You have a pain here, swelling there, a cold that stays and stays. You start to think maybe this is something really bad. But war - countries (America) like yours they always fight wars, but always somewhere else. The disease always happens somewhere else. Tt's why you fight wars more than anyone else; because you understand war least of all. You need to understand it better.

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.