For once I want to be something that lasts.
HINNAH MIANI’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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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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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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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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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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