I am unbearably human.
HINNAH MIANI am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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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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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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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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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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