"The narrator blames the birds. And you want……" — Richard Siken
"The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in this story everyone is hungry, even the birds. And at this point in the story so many things have gone wrong, so many bad decisions made, that it’s a wonder anyone would want to continue reading."
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Richard Siken
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65 Quotes by Richard Siken
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Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.
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Someone is digging your grave right now.
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From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.
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You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.
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