186 Quotes by Sharon Olds

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.

A family is a mystery.

I feel like a landscape,a ground without a figure.

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

I've said that he and I had been crazyfor each other. But maybe my ex and I were notcrazy for each other. Maybe wewere sane for each other, as if our desirewas almost not even personal -it was personal, but that hardly mattered, since thereseemed to be no other womanor man in the world.

and anyways this boy knows what's what, he canlook deep into his own heartand tell you the nature of the human - kindness,courtesy, force.

each hour is a room of shame, and I amswimming, swimming, holding my head up,smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed,like being naked with the clothed, or beinga child, having to try to behavewhile hating the terms of your life.

Then the drawing on the label of our favorite red wine looks like my husband, casting himself off a cliff in his fervor to get free of me.