Amber

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

“...I like him / and I want to be like him, my hands no longer an afterthought.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on.”
― Richard Siken

“This is the place, you say to yourself, where everything
starts to begin”
― Richard Siken, Crush