“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)

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