If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
HINNAH MIANI am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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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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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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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 don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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