"But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other lifetime."
- Raymond Carver
"Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?"
"This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world."
"I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him."
"The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places."
"There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had."
"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...."