“Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it? Here is the river, and here is the box, and here are the monsters we put in the box to test our strength against. Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?” DesireStrengthForgivenessRiversMental HealthMonstersCakeQuestioning Book:Crush Source: Crush
“Here we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say ‘Please, for just one night, will you lay down next to me? We can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up?’ But we both know how it goes – I say I want you inside me and you hold my head underwater. I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.” LoveRomanceDesireDark Author:Richard Siken
“I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling. The enormity of my desire disgusts me.” LifeDesireExistentialismDisgust Book:War of the Foxes Source: War of the Foxes
“The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.” HumansKindDesireMinutesSeventies Author:Richard Siken
