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“You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
― Richard Siken

“Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
and want to be rescued.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“We laugh & it pits the world against us.”
― Richard Siken

“Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.”
― Richard Siken

“We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor...
When I say this, it should mean laughter,
not poison.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“I don't really blame you for being dead but you can't have your sweater back.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“There are so many things I'm not allowed to tell you.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“and you play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“It starts with bloodshed, always bloodshed, always the same
running from something larger than yourself story”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“You wonder what he's thinking when he shivers like that.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Lie down on the bed, you’re all I ever wanted and worth dying for too... but I think I’d rather keep the bullet.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Sweetheart, is that you?”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“You could love this boy with all your
heart.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“He's next to you, right next to you in fact, so close, or . . . he isn't.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Don't move. Keep staring straight into my eyes.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“I don't think I can take this much longer.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“And the part where I push you flush against the wall and every part of your body rubs against the bricks, shut up I'm getting to it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Kissing degenerates into biting.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“The way you slam your body into mine reminds me
I'm alive”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“He had green eyes,
so I wanted to sleep with him—”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.”
― Richard Siken

“you’re all I ever wanted

and worth dying for too”
― Richard Siken

“The man on top of you is teaching you how to hate, sees you
as a piece of real estate,
just another fallow field lying underneath him
like a sacrifice.
He’s turning your back into a table so he doesn’t have to
eat off the floor, so he can get comfortable,
pressing against you until he fits, until he’s made a place for himself
inside you.
The clock ticks from five to six. Kissing degenerates into biting.
So you get a kidney punch, a little blood in your urine.
It isn’t over yet, it’s just begun.”
― Richard Siken, Crush