Raymond Carver Quotes

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.

I—I adore you, too. Well, I don't know if I adore you. That's not really the word I'd use. But I—I—" I managed to wrench it out. God, this was hard! "I love you." "Of course you do," he said, totally unsurprised. "WHAT? I finally tell you my deepest, most personal feelings and you're all, 'Yeah, I already got that memo'? This, this is why you drive me nuts! This is why it's so hard to tell you things! I take it back.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I've never wanted to hear.

It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me.

I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.

Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart.

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.

Bingo pup. It's a lesson best learned early. They're all afraid of us." He strolled over to Derek. "You're trying to be a good kid, aren't you? You think that'll show them they're wrong. So how'd that working out for you? Guess what? They don't care. To them, you're a monster, and nothing you do--or don't do--will change their minds. My advice? Give 'em what they want. It's a short, brutal life." He smiled. "Live it up." Derek stared straight ahead, patiently waiting. "He can't hear a word I'm saying, can he?" Liam said. "Nope.

We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.

Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.

I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again.

A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you.

There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'.

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.

I tend to close my eyes when I look at people anymore.

Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?