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That'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 Shamsie -
Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.
Kamila Shamsie
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When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
Kamila Shamsie -
So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.
Kamila Shamsie -
If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.
Kamila Shamsie -
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.
Kamila Shamsie