I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
HINNAH MIANHope lingers like a moon.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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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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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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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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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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