I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
HINNAH MIANTear me open and rest inside me.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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I am unbearably human.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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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 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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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 pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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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 am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
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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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