Burnt Shadows Quotes

“So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“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 Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he's always known to be a dream, then he's among the fortunate ones.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“The world won’t get more or less terrible if we’re indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate,’ Kim said. ‘Though it’s possible it will seem slightly less terrible if there are marshmallows in the hot chocolate.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“Why didn’t you stay?’ she has whispered against the unyielding stone. Why didn’t you stay? She pressed the berry against her lips. Why didn’t I ask you just one more time to stay.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“Sitting on the divan, she touched a finger to the bullet wound in his chest. It seemed so small, so incapable of creating the exodus of blood which had drenched his clothes and skin as he lay in the hospital, waiting for her to claim him. Death has been instantaneous, they said, as if there were a relief in that. She did not want death to have been instantaneous; she wanted to have at least held his hand as he lay dying and said goodbye to him in terms other than the, ‘Why are you doing again? You’ll find nothing. Stay. Oh all right, go,’ that had been her farewell to him that morning.

Stay. Stay. Stay. She should have repeated it like a madwoman, banged her head against the wall in a frenzy, hit him and wept. She should have said it just one more time, just a little more forcefully. She should have taken his dear, sweet head in her hands and kissed his eyes and forehead. Stay.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“....barriers made of metal could turn fluid when touched simultaneously by people on either side...”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn’t make anything less valuable.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“When the war's over, I'll be kind.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“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.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“بالنسبة الي هيروكو، أن تعرف يعني أن تُريد”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn’t learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“...and i will step out of the mirage, into your arms, to lose myself and find myself inside you.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“Why didn’t you stay?” she had whispered against the unyielding stone. Why didn’t you stay? She pressed the berry against her lips. Why didn’t I ask you just one more time to stay? Sajjad stood up quietly and walked over to her. “There is a phrase I have heard in English: to leave someone alone with their grief. Urdu has no equivalent phrase. It only understands the concept of gathering around and becoming ‘ghum-khaur’—grief-eaters—who take in the mourner’s sorrow.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows: A Novel

“إن كان أعظم ما فقدهُ في حياته ليس سوى حلم كان يعرف دائمًا أنه مجرد حلم، فهو إذن من المحظوظين.”
― كاملة شمسي, Burnt Shadows

“Konrad had been right to say barriers were made of metal that could turn fluid when touched simultaneously by people on either side.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows: A Novel

“I've lived through Hitler, Stalin, the Cold War, the British Empire, segregation, apartheid, God knows what. The world will survive this, and with just a tiny bit of luck so will everyone you love.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“I’ll read to you,” Elizabeth said. “Any preferences?” “Evelyn Waugh.” “Really? How strange.” “That’s what Konrad said. He said Waugh is for readers who know the English and understand what’s being satirised. And I told him that maybe the books are better when you don’t know it’s satire and just think it’s comedy.” Elizabeth considered this. “You’re probably right. I find him much too cruel. And almost unbearably sad.” Hiroko’s”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows: A Novel

“Ghum-khaur: devorador-de-mágoas, aquele que absorve o desgosto do enlutado.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“Kun ihminen on yhdeksänkymmentäyksi, parasta mitä uskaltaa toivoa on se, että olisi hyvin säilynyt. Mikä tarkoittaa, että näyttää säilykkeeltä.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“You can read this diagonal script, can’t you? Any man could. It says, “Stay away. This isn’t what you want.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“But when the English leave, they’ll be going home.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“Why have the English remained so English?”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“My history is your picnic ground,”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“an Indian, introducing the English to the history of India, which was his history and not theirs. It was a surprising thought, and something in it made him uneasy. He had thought the world would change around him but his own life would stay unaffected. ‘India”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“Days – no, weeks – after the bomb and everything still smelt of burning.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“only the fat from their bodies sticking to the walls and rocks around them like shadows.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“awful freedom of someone with no one to answer to.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

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