If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
HINNAH MIANI loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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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 loved each and every one of your faces.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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I am unbearably human.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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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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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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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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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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