Naveera Shah

“If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred