Kartography Quotes

“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?”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“Her 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, Kartography

“If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?"
"Cant help it. It's the company I keep.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“This world is out of date”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“I'll fall.'
'You wont fall.'
'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.'
As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down.
'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“Those Genes Could Have Been Mine”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi now / Oh, oh you’re in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You’re in Karachi now”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“How do you eat your roots?”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism. ”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“I still hear the world spinning.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography