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Here’s the full quote you’re referencing from Richard Siken, found in his collection Crush:

“I don’t really blame you for being dead, but you can’t have your sweater back.” 

A sharp, heart-twisting line that captures his signature blend of loss, intimacy, and lingering attachment—even after someone’s gone.

🔍 Other Siken Lines on Blame & Loss

• “You wanted happiness. I can’t blame you for that…”
  “…and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.”  
• From Tumblr (likely paraphrased):
  “I don’t really blame you for being dead but you can’t have your sweater back.” (mirrors the Goodreads citation)  

These quotes highlight Siken’s haunting ability to wrap profound emotional truths in deceptively simple phrases. Would you like more quotes on similar themes—perhaps from War of the Foxes—or some context about the poem from which this line comes?

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American ownership of mobile phones went from 10% to 50% in just

seven years and to the near-saturation level of 95% in just additional six

years, while smartphones rose from 10% to 90% ownership in less than a

decade.

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Roman civilization, the foremost and an unceasing subject of collapse

studies, is an even better example of remarkable continuity as some of

its features were preserved by the Holy Roman Empire for nearly a mil-

lennium (962–1806). After a prolonged period of decentralizing turmoil

and of two world wars, the gradual unification returned in the form of the

European Union, set up symbolically by the Treaty of Rome (March 25,

1957) and eventually extending to every part of Europe that used to belong

to the Roman Empire with the sole exception of Switzerland.