The world wonโt get more or less terrible if weโre indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate,โ Kim said. โThough itโs possible it will seem slightly less terrible if there are marshmallows in the hot chocolate.
Kamila ShamsieBijli fails in the dead of night / Wonโt help to call โI need a lightโ / Youโre in Karachi now / Oh, oh youโre in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / Youโre in Karachi now
Kamila ShamsieThat's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?
Kamila ShamsieHer 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.
Kamila Shamsie