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.
HINNAH MIANI don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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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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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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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’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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