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Tell Quotes by Richard Siken
- 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 tired. And you're…
- 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.
- Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.
- Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.
- You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you…
- 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…
- The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.
- For a while I thought I was the dragon. I guess I can tell you that now. And, for a while, I thought I was…
- 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…
- You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and…
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