If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
HINNAH MIANHere I am, a mosaic of becomings.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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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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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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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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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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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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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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