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Richard Siken Quotes: "If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand."

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them."

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.




Richard Siken Quotes: "You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back."

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.



Richard Siken Quotes: "He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand."

He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.




Richard Siken Quotes: "Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else."

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.



Richard Siken Quotes: "We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it."

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?"

Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?




Richard Siken Quotes: "You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have."

You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.



Richard Siken Quotes: "You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable."

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.



Richard Siken Quotes: "I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation."

I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.



Richard Siken Quotes: "I don't know where I end and the world begins. My best guess? Skin. It's the only actual boundary between the body and the world, between a body and any other body."

I don't know where I end and the world begins. My best guess? Skin. It's the only actual boundary between the body and the world, between a body and any other body.



Richard Siken Quotes: "The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through."

The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.




Richard Siken Quotes: "Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this."

Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued."

Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed."

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.



Richard Siken Quotes: "This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish."

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.



Richard Siken Quotes: "The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling."

The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.



Richard Siken Quotes: "I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars."

I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere."

Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere.



Richard Siken Quotes: "I woke up in the morning and I didn’t want anything, didn’t do anything, couldn’t do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush through me and it never made any sense, anything."

I woke up in the morning and I didn’t want anything, didn’t do anything, couldn’t do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush through me and it never made any sense, anything.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?"

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?



Richard Siken Quotes: "Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody."

Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you."

Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it."

Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break."

Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more."

Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.



Richard Siken Quotes: "From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale."

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine. I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time."

Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine. I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.



Richard Siken Quotes: "A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible."

A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible.



Richard Siken Quotes: "He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly and he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place – well then, game over."

He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly and he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place – well then, game over.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one."

Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.



Richard Siken Quotes: "The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time."

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero."

Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.



Richard Siken Quotes: "I am singing now while Rome burns."

I am singing now while Rome burns.



Richard Siken Quotes: "You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile."

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.



Richard Siken Quotes: "I wouldn’t kill your pony. I’d like to believe it, anyway. I’d like to believe I wouldn’t drag you out in to the woods and leave you there, either. So far, it hasn’t come up."

I wouldn’t kill your pony. I’d like to believe it, anyway. I’d like to believe I wouldn’t drag you out in to the woods and leave you there, either. So far, it hasn’t come up.



Richard Siken Quotes: "We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven..."

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven...



Richard Siken Quotes: "Someone is digging your grave right now."

Someone is digging your grave right now.



Richard Siken Quotes: "You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not           harmless. You are not                     breathing."

You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not           harmless. You are not                     breathing.



Richard Siken Quotes: "I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through."

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.



Richard Siken Quotes: "When you have nothing to say, set something on fire."

When you have nothing to say, set something on fire.



Richard Siken Quotes: "We laugh & it pits the world against us."

We laugh & it pits the world against us.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks"

Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks



Richard Siken Quotes: "Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again."

Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.



Richard Siken Quotes: "I know history. There are many names in historybut none of them are ours."

I know history. There are many names in historybut none of them are ours.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?"

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?



Richard Siken Quotes: "He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chestwhere a heart would fit perfectlyand he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place –well then, game over."

He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chestwhere a heart would fit perfectlyand he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place –well then, game over.



Richard Siken Quotes: "Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe have had our difficulties and there are many thingsI want to ask you."

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe have had our difficulties and there are many thingsI want to ask you.



Richard Siken Quotes: "There’s a dream in thespace between the hammer and the nail: the dream ofabout-to-be-hit, which is a bad dream, but the nail willtake the hit if it gets to sleep inside the wood forever."

There’s a dream in thespace between the hammer and the nail: the dream ofabout-to-be-hit, which is a bad dream, but the nail willtake the hit if it gets to sleep inside the wood forever.