Quotes from Richard Siken

You could drown in those eyes, I said, so it's summer, so it's suicide, so we're helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.

Things happen all the time, things happen every minute that have nothing to do with us.

Take the light inside you like a blessing, like a knee in the chest, holding onto it and not letting go. Now let it go.

I still do not have these luxuries.

There's no mistake , he says. It's your drink, the one you asked for, just the way you like it. How can you refuse?

but where's the checkered flag we all expected, waving in the distance, telling you you're home again, home?

I didn't want to see it this way, everything eating everything in the end.

You take her out into the rain and you fall in love with her and she leaves you and you're desolate.

And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired.

History throws its shadow over the beginning

This is how you make the meaning, you take two things and try to define the space between them.

You just wanted to play in your own backyard, but you don't know where your own yard is, exactly.

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. You have not made that place yet. You are here. You are here. You're still right here.

I would like to meet you all in Heaven. But there's a litany of dreams that happens somewhere in the middle. Moonlight spilling on the bathroom floor. A page of the book where we transcend the story of our lives

Something has happened in the paint tonight and it is worth keeping.

Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future.

I want what everyone wants.

We have been very brave, we have wanted to know the worst, wanted the curtain to be lifted from our eyes.

I talk to you as if you're really there.

In a word, in a phrase, it's a movie, you're the star, so smile for the camera, it's your big scene, you know your lines.

You try to warn him, you tell him you will want to get inside him, and ruin him, but he doesn't listen.

This dream going on with all of us in it.

there's no pure way to say it.

his skin barely keeping him inside.