I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
HINNAH MIANThere is a calmness in not knowing.
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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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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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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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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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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