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Kamila Shamsie
Top 10 Best 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?”
“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.”
“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.”
“Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.”
“Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?”
“Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.”
“… and that’s why they leave, isn’t it? Because they have to see themselves in the context of something larger than just the two of them. It’s like that Faiz poem, you know, mujh say pehli si muhabat, when you’ve seen the sorrows of the rest of the world you can’t go on pretending none of it matters, you can’t pretend two people can really live in isolation telling themselves their love is all that matters in the world. And that two of them, when they come back to the city, that’s when they find out that their love was imperfect because it couldn’t bear the knowledge of everything that lies outside…”
“How do you eat your roots?”
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