96 Quotes by Kamila Shamsie

"You have this ability to find beauty in weird places."

"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 of the sun."

"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"

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

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

"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."

"How do you eat your roots?"

"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."

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

"Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?""Cant help it. It's the company I keep."