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    Books fall open, you fall in.
    “Books fall open, you fall in.”
    ― David T.W. McCord
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    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
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    You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
    “You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “If a man is to die defending a field, let the field be his field, the land his land, the people his people.”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, A God in Every Stone
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “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”
    ― Kamila Shamsie
    tags: choices, courage, woman
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “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: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: clouds, escape, jealousy
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: identity
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: ability, beauty, optimism, quality, weirdness
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?"
    "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: annoying, company, humor
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: marrow
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “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
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    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
    tags: friendship, intimacy, longing, stories
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “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
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “This world is out of date”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: out-of-date, time, world
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “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: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: death, falling
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “How do you eat your roots?”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: a-question, belonging, countries, home, identity, identity-crisis, important, karachi, pakistan, roots
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: love
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.”
    ― Kamila Shamsie
    tags: relatonships, true-love, truth-in-relationships
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “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
    tags: meaningful
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    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, Broken Verses: A Gripping Mother-Daughter Story of Political Activism, Crime, and Suspense in Modern-Day Pakistan
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “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
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “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: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: candles, crisis, electricity, failure, humour, karachi, kesc, light, night, pakistan, power
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “Those Genes Could Have Been Mine”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: genes
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions
    in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its
    simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about
    to follow.”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Broken Verses: A Gripping Mother-Daughter Story of Political Activism, Crime, and Suspense in Modern-Day Pakistan
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “That night as I cried myself to sleep I knew that, somewhere in the sky, Karim was doing the same; and some of my tears were his tears, and some of his tears were mine.”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: kartography
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “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
    tags: cultural
    19 likes



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