97 Quotes About Sharon-olds

I thought wherever we were, we were in lasting love—even in our separateness andloneliness, in love

I was not the one he wanted to rise from or return to

It is in the past, enough looking back,it is gone, it is more over withthan the shocks of childhood.

What if someone had told me, thirty years ago: If you give up, now,wanting to be an artist, he mightlove you all your life—what would Ihave said? I didn't even have an art,it would could from out of our family's life—what could I have said: nothing will stop me.

The glacierscape called it up, the silent, shining tulle,the dreaming hats and cubes, the theoremsand corollaries, that girl who had thoughta wedding promise was binding as a lawof physics.

I sat on the air above it and looked down on its uninhabitable beauty.

the motion was authentic, it was from another place, it wasplanetary, it was model-of-the-solar-systemic.

I idolized it without reserve, caution, or limit, I adored it with anunprotected joy.

I still dreamed it sometimes, the illusion of a constellation visible only from a certain vantage