Charles Frazier

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

— Charles Frazier

Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.

— Charles Frazier

I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.

— Charles Frazier

“Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?”

— Charles Frazier

Verbs. All of them tiring.

— Charles Frazier

You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

— Charles Frazier

“Lola's only nugget of wisdom to her little daughters was Never cry, never ever.”

— Charles Frazier

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

— Charles Frazier

Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

— Charles Frazier

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

— Charles Frazier

“But one day leads to another, and so on. No way around it. It's that merciless thing that time does.”

— Charles Frazier

“Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home.”

— Charles Frazier

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

— Charles Frazier

“Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.”

— Charles Frazier

“By way of conclusion, Luce said, I lived through it [the rape], so if you can't stand to hear it, you can…

— Charles Frazier

It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation…

— Charles Frazier

“I won't go into it any further, other than to say that year by year the world darkens down and things are…

— Charles Frazier

“Like when the counselor delved into your habits of using a public toilet, such as do you flush with your foot and…

— Charles Frazier

A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling…

— Charles Frazier

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing…

— Charles Frazier

Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

— Charles Frazier

“That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.”

— Charles Frazier

But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me.…

— Charles Frazier

The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction.…

— Charles Frazier

“The window apparently wanted only to take his thoughts back. Which was fine with him, for he had seen the metal face…

— Charles Frazier

“Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something…

— Charles Frazier

While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early…

— Charles Frazier

I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's…

— Charles Frazier

“What they need is everything even and smooth. Not love or hate, pleasure or pain, hope or fear, safety or danger. Nobody…

— Charles Frazier

That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway.…

— Charles Frazier

“It is tempting to look back at Bear’s people from the perspective of this modern world and see them as changeless and…

— Charles Frazier

“Inman guessed Swimmer's spells were right in saying a man's spirit could be torn apart and cease and yet his body keep…

— Charles Frazier

“Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around…

— Charles Frazier

“The cabins they passed among seemed solemn in their abandonment, cramped by the watercourse and the overhanging brow of the cloudy mountain.…

— Charles Frazier

“She had been struck by the figure of a woman's back in a mirror. She stopped and looked. The dress the figure…

— Charles Frazier

“If you are in the mountains alone for some time, many days at minimum, & it helps if you are fasting. The…

— Charles Frazier

“They agreed they neither gave two hoots now as to how marriages were normally conducted. They would do as they pleased and…

— Charles Frazier

“A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the…

— Charles Frazier

“If you're not who you want to be, at least act like who you want it be. - Bud”

— Charles Frazier

“Like Dolores and Frank might quit being little glum reavers out to wreck their world.”

— Charles Frazier