“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
“Moonlight making crosseson your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“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
“This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“We can do anything. It’s not becauseour hearts are large, they’re not, it’s what westruggle with. The attempt to say Come over. Bringyour friends. It’s a potluck, I’m making pork chops, I’m makingthose long noodles you love so much.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“You're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.”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
“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