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21 " We still groped for each other on the backstairs or in parked cars
                                                                                                                                                      as the road around us
grew glossy with ice and our breath softened the view through the glass
                    already laced with frost,
but more frequently I was finding myself sleepless, and he was running out of
                                                                                                                                                                          lullabies.
But damn if there isn’t anything sexier
                                                            than a slender boy with a handgun,
                                                                                                                                  a fast car, a bottle of pills. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

22 " His hands keep turning into
birds, and his hands keep flying away
from him. Eventually the birds must land. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

23 " Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

24 " We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

25 " Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

26 " A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
                    but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
                                                                        but then he’s still left with his hands. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

27 " I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

28 " Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake
                                                                                and dress them in warm clothes again.
          How it was late, and no one could sleep, the horses running
until they forget that they are horses.
                    It’s not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere,
          it’s more like a song on a policeman’s radio,
                              how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days
were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple
                                                                                                                        to slice into pieces.
Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means
          we're inconsolable.
                                                            Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
                                                                                          Tell me we’ll never get used to it. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

29 " The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling, and they’re only a few steps behind you, finding the flaw, the poor weld, the place where we weren’t stitched up quite right, the place they could almost slip right into through if the skin wasn’t trying to keep them out, to keep them here, on the other side of the theater where the curtain keeps rising. I crawled out the window and ran into the woods. I had to make up all the words myself. The way they taste, the way they sound in the air. I passed through the narrow gate, stumbled in, stumbled around for a while, and stumbled back out. I made this place for you. A place for to love me. If this isn’t a kingdom then I don’t know what is. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

30 " Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. 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 , Crush

31 " Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

32 " All night I streched my arms across
him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing
with all my skin and bone ''Please keep him safe.
Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be
like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed
to pieces.'' Makes a cathedral, him pressing against
me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I do believe
his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

33 " 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 , Crush

34 " You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not
          harmless. You are not
                    breathing. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

35 " 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 , Crush

36 " Actually, you said Love, for you,
is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s
terrifying. No one
will ever want to sleep with you. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

37 " I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

38 " Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
and want to be rescued. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

39 " with this bullet lodged in my chest, covered with your name, I will turn myself into a gun, because
it’s all I have,
because I’m hungry and hollow and just want something to call my own. I’ll be your slaughterhouse, your killing floor, your morgue and final resting, walking around with this
bullet inside me
‘cause I couldn’t make you love me and I’m tired of pulling your teeth. "

― Richard Siken , Crush

40 " Moonlight making crosses
on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one. "

― Richard Siken , Crush