Survival Takes a Wild Imagination Quotes

“There's nothing like the feeling of lying bare-backed grass on my stomach.
The natural world meets me where humans cannot.”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

“Life—& I’m not a pessimist— but, bitch . . . life! Is there a salve to this gloom?”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

“Finding embodiment has meant finding you in this body that holds it all.”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

“Who sings lamentations for our bones? Who remembers our genocide?

Three million people...

can you even c o u n t to three million?

People.

Abbu never let me look at the bodies, but his memory contains them all.”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

“No one mourns four hundred thousand women—except the women who remember violence, in our bones.
But don't all women feel violence, in our bones?”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

“No one mourns four hundred thousand women—except the women who remember violence, in our bones.”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

“I do not know what it means to be Bangladeshi, but I want to learn about what my grandfather fought for.”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

“Forgiveness is holding the multiplicity.”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

“Nothing rings truer than blazing through the bright white streak of eucalyptus fire we decided to call life.”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

“Herodotus knew to tell a story, you had to respect it first.”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

“There's nothing like the feeling of lying bare-backed grass on my stomach. The natural world meets me where humans cannot.”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

“The natural world meets me where humans cannot.”
― Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems