“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.”

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

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

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