This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
HINNAH MIANYour heartbeat is a holy thing.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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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 unbearably human.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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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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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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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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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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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 don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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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 loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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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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