Tear me open and rest inside me.
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 want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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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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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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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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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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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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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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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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