Kamila Shamsie Kartography Quotes

#1. 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

#2. If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

Thomas Merton

#3. I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

Red Smith

#4. If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

J.G. Ballard

#5. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

George Carlin

#6. It really is a helluva fiver-upper," Henry said, because someone had to say it. "I feel like they should possibly renovate this basement if they want to get a good sale price. Hardwood floors, update the doorknobs, maybe put the wall back.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. Some of these people make my skin crawl.

Roger Ebert

#8. Why do you fall in love with the impossible?

Vee Hoffman

#9. And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

Henry Taube

#10. 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

#11. I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

Laura Mvula

#12. Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

Ayn Rand

#13. Its a moonsmile. No light of its own unless there's a sun for it to reflect off

Kamila Shamsie

#14. I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

Gay Talese

#15. It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass.

Douglas Adams

#16. "You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."

Stephen King