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Kamila Shamsie

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01Undated

How do you eat your roots?

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02Undated

Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn’t make anything less valuable.

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03Undated

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.

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04Undated

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs.

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05Undated

Abdullah to Kim Burton: "War is like disease. Until you've had it, you don't know it. But no. That's a bad comparison. At least with disease everyone thinks it might happen to them one day. You have a pain here, swelling there, a cold that stays and stays. You start to think maybe this is something really bad. But war - countries (America) like yours they always fight wars, but always somewhere else. The disease always happens somewhere else. Tt's why you fight wars more than anyone else; because you understand war least of all. You need to understand it better.

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06Undated

All around us, Karachi kept moving

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07Undated

Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.

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08Undated

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

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09Undated

The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.

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10Undated

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?

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Why have the English remained to English? Throughout India's history conquerors have come from elsewhere, and all of them --- Turk, Arab, Hun, Mongol, Persian --- have become Indian. If --- when ---this Pakistan happens, those Muslims who leave Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad to go there, They will be leaving their homes. But when the English leave, they'll be going home.

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