Living is not living when I am living without you.
HINNAH MIANHere I am, a mosaic of becomings.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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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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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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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’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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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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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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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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