“I 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.”
More from Raymond Carver
““We all need a pill now and then.”
“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that.…”
“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone’s heart. I could hear the human noise…”