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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #2
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #4
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #7
    Emily Brontë
    “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #8
    Margaret Mitchell
    “After all, tomorrow is another day!”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #9
    William Shakespeare
    “Oh, I am fortune's fool!”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Kamila Shamsie
    “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: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Kamila Shamsie
    “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: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

  • #14
    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

  • #15
    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

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    Kamila Shamsie
    “… and that’s why they leave, isn’t it? Because they have to see themselves in the context of something larger than just the two of them. It’s like that Faiz poem, you know, mujh say pehli si muhabat, when you’ve seen the sorrows of the rest of the world you can’t go on pretending none of it matters, you can’t pretend two people can really live in isolation telling themselves their love is all that matters in the world. And that two of them, when they come back to the city, that’s when they find out that their love was imperfect because it couldn’t bear the knowledge of everything that lies outside…”
    Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
    tags: faiz, love

  • #18
    Kamila Shamsie
    “How do you eat your roots?”
    Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

  • #19
    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

  • #20
    Kamila Shamsie
    “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, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

  • #21
    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

  • #22
    Kamila Shamsie
    “I can see you, out there, reading between the lines. Come home, stranger. Come home, untangler of my thoughts. Come home and tell me, what do I do with this breaking heart of mine?”
    Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

  • #23
    Kamila Shamsie
    “There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.”
    Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

  • #24
    Kamila Shamsie
    “If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.”
    Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

  • #25
    Kamila Shamsie
    “Can angels lie spine to spine?
    If not, how they must envy us humans”
    Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

  • #26
    Kamila Shamsie
    “He hung up so gently, I didn’t even hear the click.”
    Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

  • #27
    Kamila Shamsie
    “I still hear the world spinning.”
    Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

  • #28
    Khaled Hosseini
    “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
    Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #29
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #30
    Khaled Hosseini
    “A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns



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