Abdul Jabbar

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

“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

“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