Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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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 want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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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’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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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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