Quotes by : Sharon Olds

I've said that he and I had been crazyfor each other. But maybe my ex and I were notcrazy for each other.....

A family is a mystery.

...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breath’s time, but for the....

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

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

each hour is a room of shame, and I amswimming, swimming, holding my head up,smiling, joking, ashamed,....

The Knowing Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise- comaed and woken, we lie a long time looking at....

I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre....