“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
“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.” Love Author:Richard Siken
“There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.” LovePoetryFriendshipEmptyNeed Book:Crush Source: Crush
“I’m sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.” LoveDarkBloodMine Author:Richard Siken
“I'll live alone or in between. This is the testimony of the deer: solitude, the long corridors, love from a distance.” LoveSolitudeDistance Book:War of the Foxes Source: War of the Foxes
