"You go to work the next day pretending……" — 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 trying to smile. And they're trying to smile."
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65 Quotes by Richard Siken
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I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.
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I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you…
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We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven...
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Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?
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Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody.
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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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Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll…
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Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes…
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We can do anything. It’s not because our hearts are large, they’re not, it’s what we struggle with. The attempt…
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