Salt and Saffron Quotes

“How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron

“Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron

“I don't believe in love at first sight, neither do you. But I know...that sometimes it only takes a few minutes to recognize that a person is capable of breaking your heart.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron

“Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron

“We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron

“His fingers bent forward at the topmost joint pushing down against the tips of my nails, and his thumb rested lightly against the mole on my index finger. i thought of mosques and churches and prayer mats. Hands clasped together; one hand resting atop the other; fingers interlocked to mime a steeple. What sacred power is invested in hands?

This is not to say I was having pious thoughts.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron

“Samia, it appeared, had become one of those desis who drink Pepsi in Pakistan and lassi in London.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron

“All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron

“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.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron

“I am not an Englishman, nor are you. Nor can we ever be, regardless of our foxtrots, our straight bats, our Jolly Goods and I Says.

No more the Anglicized Percy, I.

I am now Taimur Hind.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron

“And it was this: raze to the ground the mausoleum you have just started building for the bones of your ancestors and your descendants and those who come in-between. Make that land a holy shrine for pilgrims from everywhere.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron