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“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 book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Variant: and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

“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

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”

Raymond Carver

“There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.”

Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.”

Raymond Carver

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”

Raymond Carver book A New Path to the Waterfall

Source: A New Path to the Waterfall

“But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.”

Raymond Carver

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.”

Raymond Carver book Cathedral

Source: Cathedral

“Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.”

Raymond Carver

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.”

Raymond Carver

Source: Ultramarine: Poems

“Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.”

Raymond Carver

“Don’t complain, don’t explain.”

Raymond Carver

“This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.”

Raymond Carver

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.”

Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

“I am a cigarette with a body attached to it”

Raymond Carver