More quotes by Richard Siken, Crush

"If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand."
"Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed."
"If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand."
"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."