This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
HINNAH MIANWhen you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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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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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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I have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
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I am unbearably human.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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I like to trace the ghosts of your fingers on the back of my hand. They read- I don’t know how to hold without you.
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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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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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