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title: "3 Pretending Quotes By Richard Siken"
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> [Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/wearing-your-clothes-or-standing-in-the-shower-for-over-an-hour/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/814/richard-siken-4133_clothes_wearing-your-clothes-or-standing-in-the_841473.png)

> [A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/a-kid-under-a-tablecloth-insists-he-s-a-ghost-a-table-underneath-a/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95b/richard-siken-4133_ghost_a-kid-under-a-tablecloth-insists-he-s-a_2362787.jpg)

> [You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/you-go-to-work-the-next-day-pretending-nothing-happened-your-co/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a90/richard-siken-4133_co-worker_you-go-to-work-the-next-day-pretending-n_2398525.png)

## Other authors on Pretending

## More by Richard Siken

> [“Personally, I’m a mess of conflicting impulses—I’m independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/personally-i-m-a-mess-of-conflicting-impulses-i-m-independent-and/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [Here I am in a rabbit run, here I am in a valley of pine, waiting for you to find me. I could pretend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/here-i-am-in-a-rabbit-run-here-i-am-in-a-valley-of-pine-waiting-for/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [“We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/we-re-shooting-the-scene-where-i-swallow-your-heart-and-you-make-me/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/he-was-pointing-at-the-moon-but-i-was-looking-at-his-hand/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/you-play-along-because-you-want-to-die-for-love-you-always-have/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [“Here we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say ‘Please, for just one night, will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/here-we-are-at-the-place-where-i-get-to-beg-for-it-where-i-get-to-say/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [“I’m sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/i-m-sorry-about-the-blood-in-your-mouth-i-wish-it-was-mine/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [“The stranger says there are no more couches and he will have to sleep in your bed. You try to warn him, you tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/the-stranger-says-there-are-no-more-couches-and-he-will-have-to-sleep/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [“I looked at all the trees and didn’t know what to do. A box made out of leaves. What else was in the woods?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/i-looked-at-all-the-trees-and-didn-t-know-what-to-do-a-box-made-out/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/tell-me-how-all-this-and-love-too-will-ruin-us-these-our-bodies/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/it-s-not-like-a-tree-where-the-roots-have-to-end-somewhere-it-s-more/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/knot-the-tie-and-go-to-work-unknot-the-tie-and-go-to-sleep-i-sleep-i/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [“want to tell you this story without having to confess anything, without having to say that I ran out into the street to prove…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/want-to-tell-you-this-story-without-having-to-confess-anything/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/here-is-the-repeated-image-of-the-lover-destroyed/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

> [“You cannot get in the way of anyone's path to God. You can, but it does no good. Every spy knows this. Somesay God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-siken/you-cannot-get-in-the-way-of-anyone-s-path-to-god-you-can-but-it-does/)

[Richard Siken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-siken/)

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