Quotes by : Kamila Shamsie

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

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

Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate....

If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

How do you eat your roots?

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

Grief was the deal God struck with the angel of death, who wanted an unpassable river to separate the....

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float,....

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

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