Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories Quotes

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But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning ...

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or whatever the fuck it was they fought over in those days.' Same things we fight over these days,' Terri said. Laura said, 'Nothing's changed.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

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 ...

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories