Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
HINNAH MIANI don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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 brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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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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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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Read the scars on my body like braille, for I no longer know how to tell a story that belongs deeply to me but is no longer mine.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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