Quotes From "Crush" By Richard Siken

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand. Richard Siken

We pull our boots on with both handsbut we can't punch ourselves awake and all I can do is stand on the curb and say Sorryabout 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

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 he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for. Richard Siken

I know history. There are many names in historybut none of them are ours. 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

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next? Richard Siken

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe have had our difficulties and there are many things I want to ask you. Richard Siken

I’m saying I love you, Cami. All of that was as real for me as it was for you. I’m asking if you’ll stick this out beside me. I’m willing to lose my badge and even be dishonorably discharged if that’s the case. I just don’t want to lose you. Lacey Weatherford

The blond boy in the red trunks is holding your head underwater because he is trying to kill you, and you deserve it, you do, and you know this, and you are ready to die in this swimming pool because you wanted to touch his hands and lips and this means your life is over anyway. You’re in eighth grade. You know these things. You know how to ride a dirt bike, and you know how to do long division, and you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn't do, because you are weak and hollow and it doesn't matter anymore. . Richard Siken

That's enough! " Holly scrambled out of her seat, too. "My three-year-old behaves better than all of you." She looked down at LJ, who was trying to stuff a fry up his nostril. "And that's not saying a whole lot. Nicole Williams

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor... When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison. Richard Siken

There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello. Richard Siken