Quotes
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Kamila Shamsie

"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

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“One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.”
“When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've been in the same situation." I couldn't find anything at the moment, and that made me really sad.”

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“Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.”
“Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you arrive they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world.”
“This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.”
“Right now in Oregon anybody can open a saloon, and hire people to come in and have sex in front of their patrons.”
“Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If youâ€™re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so tight; it gets very claustrophobic. Carefree means being wide open from within, not constricted. Carefree doesnâ€™t mean careless. It is not that you donâ€™t care about others, not that you donâ€™t have compassion or are unfriendly. Carefree is being really simple, from the inside. Dignity is not conceit but rather what shines forth from this carefree confidence.”
“Power over seems to be driving our very young species into a ditch because it's from an old competitive, "there may not be enough" kind of framework of scarcity. Power with is thinking abundantly as opposed to fearfully. Power with is hopefully where we're going - and where we need to go as a species in order to survive.”

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