Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
HINNAH MIANI 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.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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 always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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Read the scars on my body like braille, for I no longer know how to tell a story that belongs deeply to me but is no longer mine.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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I am unbearably human.
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