Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
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"You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love."
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
"That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or whatever the fuck it was they fought over in those days.'Same things we fight over these days,' Terri said.Laura said, 'Nothing's changed."
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
"We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up."
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
"I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit."
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
"I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself."
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
"There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had."
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
"Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick."
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
"This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world."
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
"Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said."
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories