Sharon Olds citations

“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”

“Once you lose someone it is never exactly
the same person who comes back.”

“I did not know him, I knew my idea
of him.”

“I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me,
I did not leave him, he did not leave me,
I freed him, he freed me.”

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

“it is
forbidden to love where we are not loved”

“A family is a mystery.”