Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.
Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happ… - Richard Siken
Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happ…
- Richard Siken
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? - Richard Siken
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?
You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back. - Richard Siken
You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.
Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them. - Richard Siken
Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.
Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal… - Richard Siken
Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal…
I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly. - Richard Siken
I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.
You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have. - Richard Siken
You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.
When you have nothing to say, set something on fire. - Richard Siken
When you have nothing to say, set something on fire.
Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it? - Richard Siken
Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?
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