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Quote by Richard Siken

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”

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Richard Siken is an American poet born in 1967. His poetry is known for its unique style and profound emotional expression, which has won him a wide audience. more

“I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.”

Thinking Want Writing Looks Soul Might Able Mother Left Study Letters West Ancient Ghost My Soul Rooted Virginia Pancakes Helen West Virginia

Author:Breece D'J Pancake

“Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.”

Two Silence Fingers Flames Candle Bangs Unwind

Book:Unwind

Source: Unwind

“Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity”

Knows Long Bigs Lasts Form Space Metals Inability Sharks Equilibrium Captivity Aquariums Claustrophobia

Book:Unwind

Source: Unwind

“It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.”

Ifs Want Enough Hands Moving Flames Tease

Book:Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly

Source: Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly

“Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law”

Law Dies Bitter Unchangeable Laws Of Life

Author:David Clement-Davies

“Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally”

Darkness Allies

Author:David Clement-Davies

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