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

Kamila Shamsie

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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 Shamsie

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

Kamila Shamsie

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

Kamila Shamsie

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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 Shamsie

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How 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 Shamsie


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My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses

Kamila Shamsie

Tags: romance mystery code



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When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

Kamila Shamsie

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

Kamila Shamsie

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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.

Kamila Shamsie

Tags: love romance weakness destiny intimacy pakistan karachi



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