Kamila Shamsie quotes

Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani novelist and writer, renowned for her works exploring themes of identity, migration, and politics. Her novels, such as "Home Fire" and "Burnt Shadows," have received international acclaim and numerous awards. She continues to be an influential voice in contemporary literature, often addressing social and cultural issues. Here are 19 of her quotes:

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?

Kamila Shamsie

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

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

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

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

Kamila Shamsie

Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?

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.

Kamila Shamsie

How do you eat your roots?

Kamila Shamsie

This world is out of date.

Kamila Shamsie

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

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

Kamila Shamsie

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

Kamila Shamsie

...I am absolutely not someone who thinks that politics is separate from the most intimate details of people's lives...

Kamila Shamsie

I tend to be an optimist about human nature but a political pessimist...I think we're living in very, very scary times and we have to find ways of looking squarely at it and finding reasons for optimism.

Kamila Shamsie

I don't have much time for the idea that art is some languorous thing on the sidelines, and that you have to wait 50 years before you address a subject...

Kamila Shamsie

The thing you know in the abstract, but which you have to see, is the vastness of the place and how little relationship one side of it has to another. Mostly, the landscape is just unbelievably beautiful. You do a lot of looking and not that much thinking.

Kamila Shamsie

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

Kamila Shamsie