“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 Love , Light
“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 Smile
“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 Love , Joy , Happiness
“Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lakeand dress them in warm clothes again.” Richard Siken Dreams , Clothes
“The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.” Richard Siken History , Time