Quotes from Kamila Shamsie

How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That's when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.

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

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

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

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.

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.

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

Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.

How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That's when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.

Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.

So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.

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

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

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.

Everything else you can live around, but not death. Death you have to live through.

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.

How do you eat your roots?

I don't believe in love at first sight, neither do you. But I know...that sometimes it only takes a few minutes to recognize that a person is capable of breaking your heart.

I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.

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

If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he's always known to be a dream, then he's among the fortunate ones.

This world is out of date

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.