186 Quotes by Sharon Olds

He shows no anger,I show no anger but in flashes of humor,all is courtesy and horror.

I tell him I will try to fall out oflove with him, but I feel I will love himall my life.

seeking how to accept him ashe was, under the law that he could notspeak—and when I shrieked against the lawhe shrinked down into its absolute,he rose from its departure gate.

I never thought to see you again, I never thought to seek you.

and it's as if my body has not heard, or hasn't believed, the news

in a sky whose darkness is fading, thatfirst dream, from which I am now waking.

Dread and sorrow reaching, in time, into every reach

He lived so enclosed in himself, he seemed alive notexactly like others, but hibernating

I called for him through solid earth until he woke, and left.