And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
HINNAH MIANSomewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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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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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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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 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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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I am unbearably human.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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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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