“Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“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.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken
“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.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“We have not touched the stars,nor are we forgiven, which brings us backto the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,not from the absence of violence, but despitethe abundance of it.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you saybut you never come through.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken
“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.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken
“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken
“He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken
“You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not harmless. You are not breathing.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“I woke up in the morning and I didn’t want anything, didn’t do anything, couldn’t do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rushthrough me and it never made any sense, anything.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken
“Is that too much to expect? That I would name the starsfor you? That I would take you there? The splashof my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.”Help us translate this quoteRichard 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.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“Here I amleaving you clues. I am singing now while Romeburns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack,my silent night, just mash your lips against me.We are all going forward. None of us are going back.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken
“Moonlight making crosseson your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.”Help us translate this quoteRichard 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.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“Oh, the things we invent when we are scaredand want to be rescued.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
“He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chestwhere a heart would fit perfectlyand he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place –well then, game over.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken
“Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lakeand dress them in warm clothes again.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken
“Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken
“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.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken
“And the gentleness that comes,not from the absence of violence, but despitethe abundance of it.”Help us translate this quoteRichard Siken Source: Crush
