I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
HINNAH MIANI remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I am unbearably human.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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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’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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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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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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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’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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