“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
“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
“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
“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 Source: Crush
“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
“Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.”Richard Siken
“You wanted to think of yourself as someone who did these kinds of things. You wanted to be in love and he happened to get in the way.”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 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