All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.
Kamila ShamsieTags: first-sentence
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.
Kamila ShamsieTags: true-love relationships
Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.
Kamila ShamsieTags: true-love relatonships truth-in-relationships
If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.
Kamila ShamsieTags: identity
This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.
Kamila ShamsieHow to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.
Kamila ShamsieMy ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses
Kamila ShamsieWhen you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
Kamila ShamsieTags: romance
Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses
Kamila ShamsieTags: inspirational philosophical wry
Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.
I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.
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