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Quotes About Yearning

I still do not have these luxuries.
~ Richard Siken
You take her out into the rain and you fall in love with her and she leaves you and you're desolate.
~ Richard Siken
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.
~ Richard Siken
I want what everyone wants.
~ Richard Siken
I talk to you as if you're really there.
~ Richard Siken
I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful
~ Richard Siken
Let me do it right for once, for the record, let me make a thing of cream and stars that becomes, you know the story, simply heaven.
~ Richard Siken
You were very beautiful.
~ Richard Siken
you must want something, just tell me, and it's yours.
~ Richard Siken
and I was trying to convince you that I was a vampire.
~ Richard Siken
There's only one thing I want, don't make me say it
~ Richard Siken
The lawn drowned, the sky on fire, the gold light falling backwards through the glass of every room. I'll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger. Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there?
~ Richard Siken
I made this place for you. A place for you to love me. If this isn't the kingdom then I don't know what is.
~ 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
I crawled out the window and ran into the woods. I had to make up all the words myself. The way they taste, the way they sound in the air. I passed through the narrow gate, stumbled in, stumbled around for awhile, and stumbled back out. I made this place for you. A place for you to love me. If this isn't the kingdom then I don't know what is.
~ Richard Siken
If we wanted to tell you everything, we would leave more footprints in the snow or kiss you harder.
~ Richard Siken
You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.
~ Richard Siken
I know you want me to say it . . . it's in the script, you want me to say Lie down on the bed, you're all I ever wanted and worth dying for, too . . .
~ Richard Siken
Do you want it? Do you want anything I have?
~ Richard Siken
You said Will you love me even more when I'm dead?
~ Richard Siken
I swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth.
~ Richard Siken
his skin barely keeping him inside. I wanted to take him home
~ Richard Siken
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 rush through me and it never made any sense, anything.
~ Richard Siken
So here we are again, words on a page, the voice that wants to be a hand, the bridge with no opposite side.
~ Richard Siken