I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
HINNAH MIANThis country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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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 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 don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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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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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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