Hope lingers like a moon.
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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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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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 loved each and every one of your faces.
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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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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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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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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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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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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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I am unbearably human.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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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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