Top 25 Quotes by Kamila Shamsie of 31 - Page 2

I still hear the world spinning.

World, Spinning, Stills

Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.5, A&C Black

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

Thinking, Needs, Return

No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.

Kamila Shamsie

Military, Writing, Self

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