“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
“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
“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
“Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe have had our difficulties and there are many thingsI want to ask you.”Richard Siken Source: Crush