I didn’t tell him that I grew up...

I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun.

- Kamila Shamsie

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There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn’t learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart.

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I still hear the world spinning.

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So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn’t really make it

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Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.

- Kamila Shamsie

Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with us?” and “What are we doing out there in the world?

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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

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