If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
HINNAH MIANRead 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.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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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 want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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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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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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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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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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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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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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