Quotes by : Kamila Shamsie

They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's....

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

Why have the English remained to English? Throughout India's history conquerors have come from elsewhere,....

If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he's always known to be a dream, then he's among....

So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that....

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for....

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope....

This world is out of date

We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there’s a....

There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay.....