She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
HINNAH MIANI loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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I am unbearably human.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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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 don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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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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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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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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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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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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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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I am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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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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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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