“ This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism. Kamila Shamsie
“ Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with us?” and “What are we doing out there in the world? Kamila Shamsie
“ Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this. Kamila Shamsie
“ So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn’t really make it Kamila Shamsie
“ There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn’t learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart. 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 and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance… Kamila Shamsie
“ If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower. Kamila Shamsie
“ They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you… 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. Kamila Shamsie
“ 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… Kamila Shamsie
