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Them Quotes by Richard Siken
- Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.
- 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 about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.
- I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream…
- I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.
- 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…
- You are playing cards with three Jeffs. One is your father, one is your brother, and the other is your current boyfriend. All of them…
- 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…
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