Del

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

“O how he loves you, darling boy. Oh how, like always, he invents the monsters underneath the bed to get you to sleep next to him, chest to chest or chest to back, the covers drawn around you in an act of faith against the night.”
― Richard Siken

“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“but more frequently I was finding myself sleepless and he was running out of lullabies”
― Richard Siken, Crush