96 Quotes by Kamila Shamsie

"All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins."

"Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree."

"Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same."

"I've lived through Hitler, Stalin, the Cold War, the British Empire, segregation, apartheid, God knows what. The world will survive this, and with just a tiny bit of luck so will everyone you love."

"Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time."

"Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority."

"Grief never leaves, It merely sinks into you."

"Decisions. Where, what, why. Can’t handle them. So I’m prolonging the indecision with higher education."

"When the war’s over, I’ll be kind."

"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."