Rowan Siegel > Rowan's Quotes

“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

“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.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling, and they’re only a few steps behind you, finding the flaw, the poor weld, the place where we weren’t stitched up quite right, the place they could almost slip right into through if the skin wasn’t trying to keep them out, to keep them here, on the other side of the theater where the curtain keeps rising. I crawled out the window and ran into the woods. I had to make up all the words myself. The way they taste, the way they sound in the air. I passed through the narrow gate, stumbled in, stumbled around for a while, and stumbled back out. I made this place for you. A place for to love me. If this isn’t a kingdom then I don’t know what is.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not
          harmless. You are not
                    breathing.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“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 love me back.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
and want to be rescued.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“And the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.”
― Richard Siken

“I am singing now while Rome
burns.”
― 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
right out of my mouth.
You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Let’s admit, without apology, what we do to each other.”
― Richard Siken

“The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening
at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.”
― Richard Siken

“Someone is digging your grave right now.”
― Richard Siken

“I wanted to hurt you / but the victory is that I could not stomach it.”
― Richard Siken

“I’ve been in your body, baby, and it was paradise.
I’ve been in your body and it was a carnival ride.”
― Richard Siken

“I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy.”
― Richard Siken

“Someone is digging your grave right now.
Someone is drawing a bath to wash you clean, he said,
so think of the wind, so happy, so warm. It’s a fairy tale,
the story underneath the story, sliding down the polished
halls, lightning here and gone. We make these
ridiculous idols so we can to what’s behind them,
but what happens after we get up the ladder?
Do we simply stare at what’s horrible and forgive it?”
― Richard Siken

“I will come back from the dead for you.”
― Richard Siken

“History is painted by the winners.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“the radio aches a little tune that tells the story of what the night is thinking. it's thinking of love.

it's thinking of stabbing us to death and leaving our bodies in a dumpster.

that's a nice touch, stains in the night, whiskey and kisses for everyone.”
― Richard Siken

“Makes a cathedral, him pressing against me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I do believe
his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“I’m sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.”
― Richard Siken

“But damn if there isn't anything sexier than a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“you’re all I ever wanted

and worth dying for too”
― Richard Siken