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Quotes About Intimacy

You were drinking sangria and I was throwing oranges at you, but it didn't matter. I said my arms are very long and your head's on fire. I said kiss me here and here and here and you did.
~ Richard Siken
Please keep him safe. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces.
~ Richard Siken
and you don't trust him to love you in a way you would enjoy
~ Richard Siken
He's next to you, right next to you in fact, so close, or . . . he isn't.
~ Richard Siken
I'll call you darling, hold you tight.
~ Richard Siken
The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I'm alive
~ Richard Siken
He had green eyes, so I wanted to sleep with him—
~ Richard Siken
here we are at the place where I get to beg for it where I get to say Please, for just one night, will you lay down next to me, we can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up? or will I say Roll over and let me fuck you till you puke, Henry, you owe me this much, you can indulge me this at least, can't you? but we both know how it goes. I say I want you inside me and you hold my head underwater, I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.
~ Richard Siken
I said kiss me here and here and here and you did.
~ Richard Siken
Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other.
~ Richard Siken
I've been in your body, baby, and it was paradise.
~ Richard Siken
All night I stretched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone Please keep him safe. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces.
~ Richard Siken
pressing against you until he fits, until he's made a place for himself inside you.
~ Richard Siken
We were in the gold room where everyone finally gets what they want, so I said What do you want, sweetheart? and you said Kiss me.
~ Richard Siken
just mash your lips against me.
~ Richard Siken
His shoulder blots out the stars but the minutes don't stop. He covers my body with his body but the minutes don't stop.
~ Richard Siken
but will you let me kiss your neck, baby? Do I have to tie your arms down?
~ Richard Siken
but will you let me kiss your neck, baby? Do I have to tie your arms down? Do I have to stick my tongue in your mouth like the hand of a thief, like a burglary like it's just another petty theft? It makes me tired, Henry. Do you see what I mean? Do you see what I'm getting at?
~ Richard Siken
He hits you and he hits you and he hits you. Desire driving his hands right into your body.
~ Richard Siken
I talk to you as if you're really there.
~ Richard Siken
here we are at the place where I get to beg for it, where I get to say Please, just for one night, will you lie down next to me
~ Richard Siken
If we wanted to tell you everything, we would leave more footprints in the snow or kiss you harder.
~ Richard Siken
Let's say you're driving down the road with your eyes closed but my eyes are also closed.
~ Richard Siken
I swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth.
~ Richard Siken