Quotes About Richard 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.

You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.

You keep singing along to that song I hate. Stop singing.

And you play along because it's funny, because it's written down, you've memorized it, it's all you know. I say the phrases that keep it all going, and everybody plays along.

Names called out across the water, names I called you behind your back, sour and delicious, secret and unrepeatable

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.