And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
HINNAH MIANDepression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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I always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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I’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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I am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
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