“ 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
“ It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-- a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone,… Raymond Carver
“ They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving. 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 t… Raymond Carver
“ 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
“ This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world. Raymond Carver
“ A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so. Raymond Carver
“ She serves me a piece of it a few minutesout of the oven. A little steam risesfrom the slits on top. Sugar and spice -cinnamon - burned into the crust.But she's wearing these dark glassesin the kitche… Raymond Carver
“ We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up. Raymond Carver
“ 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. Raymond Carver
“ 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.… Raymond Carver
“ We opened our eyes and turned in bed to take a good look at each other. We both knew it then. We'd reached the end of something, and the thing was to find out where new to start. Raymond Carver
“ There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do? Raymond Carver
“ 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
“ The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places. Raymond Carver
“ I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harm… Raymond Carver
