My heart is broken,โ she goes. โItโs turned to a piece of stone. Iโm no good. Thatโs whatโs as bad as anything, that Iโm no good anymore.
Raymond CarverMy circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
Raymond CarverI loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.
Raymond Carver