“ But I guess even the knights were vessels to someone. Isn't that the way it worked? But then everyone is always a vessel to someone. Raymond Carver
“ 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
“ So early it's still almost dark out.I'm near the window with coffee,and the usual early morning stuffthat passes for thought.When I see the boy and his friendwalking up the roadto deliver the newspape… Raymond Carver
“ Close your eyes now,' the blind man said to me. I did it. I closed them just like he said.'Are they closed?' he said. 'Don't fudge.''They're closed,' I said.'Keep them that way,' he said. He said, 'Do… Raymond Carver
“ And 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
“ That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife… Raymond Carver
“ I don't know why, but I suddenly felt a long way away from everybody I had known and loved when I was a girl. I missed people. For a minute I stood there and wished I could get back to that time. Then… Raymond Carver
“ Well, the husband was very depressed for the longest while. Even after he found out that his wife was going to pull through, he was still very depressed. Not about the accident, though. I mean, the ac… Raymond Carver
“ Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the se… Raymond Carver
“ 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. Raymond Carver
“ And certain things around us will change, become easier or harder, one thing or the other, but nothing will ever really be any different. I believe that. We have made our decisions, our lives have bee… Raymond Carver
“ In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well. Raymond Carver
“ But I guess even the knights were vessels to someone. Isn't that the way it worked? But then everyone is always a vessel to someone. Isn't that right, Terri? But what I liked about the knights, beside… Raymond Carver
“ At leastI want to get up early one more morning,before sunrise. Before the birds, even.I want to throw cold water on my faceand be at my work tablewhen the sky lightens and smokebegins to rise from th… Raymond Carver
“ The past is unclear. It's as if there is a film over those early years. I can't even be sure that the things I remember happening really happened to me. Raymond Carver
“ It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the… Raymond Carver
