Registers of Illuminated Villages Quotes

“I am chosen, I prayed, I was born. I took a right, a left, and another left. I'm sometimes late, but I do love to run a palm all alone around the shining altar. I still believe I could be, like y'all said, anything I wanted.”
― Tarfia Faizullah, Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems

“Somewhere in this insomniac night / my life is beginning / without me.”
― Tarfia Faizullah, Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems

“Yeah, I did that. Snuck off to unwrap my own morals: for a card to call a boy in another state who didn't want me, rings that gave my knuckles grass-colored scars, and a diary to carry my aches in.”
― Tarfia Faizullah, Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems

“Do you hear an echo? As in, nymph of rock and ravine cursed to endlessly repeat the voice of another. As in, I can't help but speak for fear the voice I'll hear is my own.”
― Tarfia Faizullah, Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems