171 Quotes by Richard Siken

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    Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

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    When you have nothing to say, set something on fire. A blurry landscape is useless.

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    Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

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    I wouldn’t kill your pony. I’d like to believe it, anyway. I’d like to believe I wouldn’t drag you out in to the woods and leave you there, either. So far, it hasn’t come up.

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    Please keep him safe. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces.

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