171 Quotes by Richard Siken

Even when I look away I am still looking.

Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere.

Are you there, sweetheart? Do you know me?

I’ll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger. Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?

Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.

Numbers larger than ten are no longer human: they fly from the hand into the imaginary sky we call hypothesis.

Wanna make a monster? Take the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable – your weaknesses, bad thoughts, vanities, and hungers – and pretend they’re across the room. It’s too ugly to be human. It’s too ugly to be you. Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves.

I looked at all the trees and didn’t know what to do.

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.