“we are at the crossroads, my little outlaw,and this is the map of my heart, the landscapeafter cruelty”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A tableunderneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us,only pretending to be invisible.”Richard Siken
“You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor…When I say this, it should mean laughter,not poison.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe have had our difficulties and there are many thingsI want to ask you.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.”Richard Siken
“Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure.I'm sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happeningat the wrong end of a very long tunnel.”Richard Siken
“We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make mespit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawlsright out of my mouth.You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“You can sleep now, you said. You can sleep now. You said that.I had a dream where you said that. Thanks for saying that.You weren't supposed to.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”Richard Siken