Raymond Carver

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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  • Alessandra Oliveirahas quoted6 months ago
    IN the kitchen, he poured another drink and looked at the bedroom suite in his front yard. The mattress was stripped and the candy-striped sheets lay beside two pillows on the chiffonier.
  • Kingahas quoted2 years ago
    There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted3 years ago
    “I’ll put out some cheese and crackers,” Terri said.
    But Terri just sat there. She did not get up to get anything.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted3 years ago
    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.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted3 years ago
    “Laura, if I didn’t have Terri and if I didn’t love her so much, and if Nick wasn’t my best friend, I’d fall in love with you. I’d carry you off, honey,”
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted3 years ago
    She grabbed for the baby’s other arm. She caught the baby around the wrist and leaned back.

    But he would not let go. He felt the baby slipping out of his hands and he pulled back very hard.

    In this manner, the issue was decided.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted3 years ago
    Is that what happens when a friend dies? Bad luck for the pals he left behind?
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted3 years ago
    “Women,” he said. He said, “That’s what the wrong kind of woman can do to you, Jack.”

    BUT I don’t think Dad really believed it. I think he just didn’t know who to blame or what to say.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted3 years ago
    A big moon was laid over the mountains that went around the city. It was a white moon and covered with scars. Any damn fool could imagine a face there.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted3 years ago
    He looked at them as they sat at the table. In the lamplight, there was something about their faces. It was nice or it was nasty. There was no telling.
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