How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
HINNAH MIANHe reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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 want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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I am unbearably human.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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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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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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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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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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