Quotes added on Friday, March 4 2016
“
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.—Richard Siken
”
“
Imagine
that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it
isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where
everyone has their back against the wall, where everyone is in
pain and acting selfishly because if they don’t,
they’ll die. Imagine a story, not of good against evil, but
of need against need against need, where everyone is at
cross-purposes and everyone is to blame.—Richard Siken
”
“
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.
‘Crush’ | Richard Siken
‘Crush’ | Richard Siken
If you don't like the road you're on, start paving
another one.
“ The
Ministry of Love
was the really
frightening one. There were no windows in it
at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor
within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to
enter except on offical business, and then only by penetrating
through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and
hidden machine-gun nests. ”
-George Orwell
"1984"
"1984"
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