I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
HINNAH MIANI always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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I am unbearably human.
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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’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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