Death Quote by Richard Siken — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that 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 didn’t even have a name for.”

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

“He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chest”

“Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.”

“I could picture how Caprice was before we lost her. Dark hair, beautiful smile, intelligent hazel eyes, quick wit.”

“I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life—achieving a sense of peace within oneself.”

“Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.”

“The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.”

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”

“I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.”