jay

“Someone is digging your grave right now.
Someone is drawing a bath to wash you clean, he said,
so think of the wind, so happy, so warm. It’s a fairy tale,
the story underneath the story, sliding down the polished
halls, lightning here and gone. We make these
ridiculous idols so we can to what’s behind them,
but what happens after we get up the ladder?
Do we simply stare at what’s horrible and forgive it?”
― Richard Siken

“Here is the part where everyone was happy all the time and we were all forgiven,
even though we didn't deserve it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“There should be just one safe place in the world, I mean this world. People get hurt here.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Between you and him there are chasms. He and I are closer than friends. We are enemies linked together. The same sin binds us.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband