" But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway. "

― Raymond Carver , فاصله و داستان‌های دیگر، به‌همراهِ مقالاتی در شناختِ ریموند کاروِر