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.
HINNAH MIANThere is a calmness in not knowing.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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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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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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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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I always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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