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 ShamsieThere’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.
Kamila ShamsieCan I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.
Kamila Shamsie