How to Cure a Ghost Quotes

“The greatest scam is colonization. The greatest scam is us believing that you’re better than us, when you stole all that we were and sold it back, convincing us of our inferiority, spitting on our graves.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost

“the revolution exists in the choice to see, that seeing is indeed believing and entrusting in a better future, for all.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost

“the forever too sensitive, as if insensitive is #goals.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost: Poems

“in a universe where I merely just survive.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost: Poems

“The greatest scam is us believing that you're better than us, when you stole all that we were and sold it back, convincing us of our inferiority, spitting on our graves.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost: Poems

“the brittle feeling of standing with my heartbeat in my mouth, wondering if he'll come back and collect me. if i'm worth collecting, worth even being loved.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost: Poems

“in the time that he leaves me and disappears, my whole world collapses. It's the feeling of not knowing if he will return, that destroys me, making me frail.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost: Poems

“In that moment she understood me vastly. But soon-oh, soon-she would forget.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost: Poems

“unashamed-she, who sees all, judge, jury, and executioner.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost: Poems

“how hard is it to let go of this ultimate betrayal”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost: Poems

“I'm tired of being awakened, but unlived.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost: Poems

“It feels cold to not be chosen, to blink and not be seen, to be forgotten like a pebbled amulet that has lost its kin”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost: Poems

“bad men do what bad men did for centuries because that’s what bad men like bad men do.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost

“and, oh, don’t even get me started on “male novelists.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost

“we are volcanoes. we declare ourselves. we are the solstice, the new moon. we are not silent, brown girl. i hear you but i don’t weep.”
― Fariha Roisin, How to Cure a Ghost