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War of the Foxes by Richard Siken
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Richard Siken
“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”
Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

Richard Siken
“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

Richard Siken
“I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.
The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

Richard Siken
“I clawed my way into the light but the light is just as scary. I’d rather quit. I’d rather be sad. It’s too much work.”
Richard Siken, War of the Foxes
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Richard Siken
“Because people die. The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear: that something does.”
Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

Richard Siken
“I hope it’s love. I’m trying really hard
to make it love.”
Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

Richard Siken
“Paint ghosts over everything, the sadness of everything. We made ourselves cold. We made ourselves snow. We smuggled ourselves into ourselves. Haunted by each other’s knowledge. To hide somewhere is not surrender, it is trickery. All day the snow falls down, all night the snow. I try to guess your trajectory and end up telling my own story. We left footprints in the slush of ourselves, getting out of there.”
Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

Richard Siken
“It should be enough. To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn’t. It should be.”
Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

Richard Siken
“What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.”
Richard Siken, War of the Foxes


Reading Progress

May 17, 2023 – Shelved as: to-read
May 17, 2023 – Shelved

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