How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
HINNAH MIANI don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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