96 Quotes by Kamila Shamsie

"There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn’t learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart."

"We saw something was happening, my sister and I. We thought it was some kind of secret affair, his first time in love. In a way, it was. What else explains a person being turned inside out in the space of just a few weeks?"

"Why sociology?’ he said. He shouldn’t have opened the wine – it would only make Terry angrier. There was never anything to be gained from pettiness. ‘I wanted to understand why the world is so unfair.’ ‘Shouldn’t your God give you those answers?’ he said, surprised by the slight teasing of his own tone. ‘Our God did, in a roundabout way.’ ‘How’s that?’ he said. She was pretty when her face was at rest, wiped clean of the encroachment of anxiety. ‘For starters, He created Marx."

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

"She felt, as she did most mornings, the deep pleasure of daily life distilled to the essentials: books, walks, spaces in which to think and work."

"Don’t, please, don’t disappear."

"He hung up so gently, I didn’t even hear the click."

"He had tears in his eyes even as he told her not to cry."

"Those Genes Could Have Been Mine"

"People don't change.''People change entirely,' I said. 'Look at Narcissus. Became a flower. I call that change."