I always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
HINNAH MIANSeek refuge in the space between my bones.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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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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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 want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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