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 ShamsieFor 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 ShamsieThe 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 ShamsieNo self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.
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