Rashiidefu

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“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.”
― Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap: Poems

“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

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