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Quotes About Desire

You said I could have anything I wanted, but I just couldn't say it out loud.
~ Richard Siken
He hits you and he hits you and he hits you. Desire driving his hands right into your body.
~ Richard Siken
leave the gun on the table, this has nothing to do with happiness.
~ 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.
~ Richard Siken
I still do not have these luxuries.
~ Richard Siken
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?
~ 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
You try to warn him, you tell him you will want to get inside him, and ruin him, but he doesn't listen.
~ Richard Siken
I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful
~ 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
Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed. Crossed out.
~ 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 couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time. a stone in the hand means somebody's angry, the stone inside you still hasn't hit bottom.
~ Richard Siken
The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell.
~ 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 had four dreams in a row where you were burned, about to burn, or still on fire.
~ 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