Beginners Quotes

“I don't know why, but I suddenly felt a long way away from everybody I had known and loved when I was a girl. I missed people. For a minute I stood there and wished I could get back to that time. Then with my next thought I understood clearly that I couldn't do that. No. But it came to me then that my life did not remotely resemble the life I thought I'd have when I had been young and looking ahead to things.”
― Raymond Carver, Beginners

“Two things are certain: 1) people no longer care what happens to other people, and 2) nothing makes any real difference any longer.”
― Raymond Carver, Beginners