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And it was this: raze to the ground the mausoleum you have just started building for the bones of your ancestors and your descendants and those who come in-between. Make that land a holy shrine for pilgrims from everywhere.

Kamila Shamsie

How do you eat your roots?

Kamila Shamsie

Tag: roots identity home belonging countries important pakistan karachi identity-crisis a-question

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

Kamila Shamsie

Tag: optimism beauty quality weirdness ability

There were moments, Hasan, when I like to think that the stars are bullet-holes. For every bullet shot by an oppressor there springs to life a star, with so great a radiance that it can never be put out, it can never be imprisoned. But if that really were true, the last three months in this city would have erased every trace of blackness from the sky.

Kamila Shamsie

On those days, Hasan understood what Ami had meant when she said that there are memories that cannot be spoken of, because to speak of them imperfectly is to rob the of something vital, though to leave them intact, inside, is to leave no space for anything else in your life.

Kamila Shamsie

They have made me understand how the City can get under your skin, and never be sweated out. I mean, it’s still aesthetically traumatic, but it’s got spirit.

Kamila Shamsie

We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.

Kamila Shamsie

Tag: friendship stories longing intimacy

Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi now / Oh, oh you’re in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You’re in Karachi now

Kamila Shamsie

Tag: power humour night light crisis failure electricity pakistan karachi candles kesc

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.

Kamila Shamsie

Tag: cultural