This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
HINNAH MIANTear me open and rest inside me.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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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 always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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I am unbearably human.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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