“Actually, you said Love, for you,is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’sterrifying. No onewill ever want to sleep with you.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“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 Source: Crush
“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 Source: Crush
“We have not touched the stars,nor are we forgiven, which brings us backto the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,not from the absence of violence, but despitethe abundance of it.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you saybut you never come through.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.Your co-workers askif everything's okay and you tell themyou're just tired.And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.”Richard Siken
“You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not harmless. You are not breathing.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“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 rushthrough me and it never made any sense, anything.”Richard Siken
“Is that too much to expect? That I would name the starsfor you? That I would take you there? The splashof my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“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 Source: Crush
“Here I amleaving you clues. I am singing now while Romeburns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack,my silent night, just mash your lips against me.We are all going forward. None of us are going back.”Richard Siken
“Moonlight making crosseson your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“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 Source: Crush