Quotes by : Richard Siken

But damn if there isn't anything sexier than a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills.....

There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything....

There’s a dream in thespace between the hammer and the nail: the dream ofabout-to-be-hit, which is....

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.....

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

You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling,....

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question....

We pull our boots on with both handsbut we can't punch ourselves awake and all I can do is stand on the....