Shamim Quotes

#1. The only exception was my mother, who unabashedly took up for Adnan, fought with anyone who had anything negative to say about him, never stopped talking about him with Aunty Shamim, and prayed for him with the intensity of a thousand burning suns. I

Rabia Chaudry

#2. It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the distinctive charm that this sort of mixture of sublimity, sickness, and childishness has to offer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Lamia was not sure whether she liked Leyla. She was too quiet, too knowing, her eyes were always probing, she felt, and she was clearly a bad influence on Tala, enticing her to museums and libraries when she should be shopping.

Shamim Sarif

#4. Go to heaven for the climate

Mark Twain

#5. Colin, I fell! It was brilliant!

J.K. Rowling

#6. She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.

Shamim Sarif

#7. From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Mark Haddon

#8. There was light and there was darkness, and where once, so recently, he had sat at his desk bathed in that light, now he was clothed in the black cover of heartbreak.

Shamim Sarif

#9. Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

Chris Christie

#10. It was the downfall of love, Lamia thought wistfully, that it inspired the lover to toss away any shred of caution just to obtain the pure, desperate pleasure of talking about the beloved.

Shamim Sarif

#11. We only see what interests us, and we have only insight in proportion to our sympathy.

G.H. Lewes