Raymond Carver: Trending quotes (page 2)

“But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.”

“There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?”

“Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.”

“Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.”

“Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.”

“My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.”

“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”

“My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.”

“I am too nervous to eat pie.”

“The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.”

“A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don’t matter a damn anymore.”

“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.”

“What good are insights? They only make things worse.”

“Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.”

“I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.”

“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”

“I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.”

“What do any of us really know about love?”

“You're a beautiful drunk, daughter.
But you're a drunk.”