How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
HINNAH MIANI’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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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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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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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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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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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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