I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
HINNAH MIANI am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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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 am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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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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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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