All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men… — Charles Frazier Grandchildren Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to… — Charles Frazier Age Copy Share Image
“They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and… — Charles Frazier Rain Copy Share Image
I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“And also forever too late for Lily to learn that raging passion predicts nothing but a mess of bad news for everybody.” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Age Copy Share Image
Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can,… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“With the snow piling up outside, the warm dry cabin hidden in its fold of the mountain felt like a safe haven… — Charles Frazier Haven Copy Share Image
I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed… — Charles Frazier Beautiful Copy Share Image
“...for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed… — Charles Frazier Grief Copy Share Image
“His spells portrayed the spirit as a frail thing, contstantly under attack and in need of stength, always threatening to die inside… — Charles Frazier Faith Copy Share Image
No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“...it was pointless to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them… — Charles Frazier Grief Copy Share Image
But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike… — Charles Frazier Bullshit Copy Share Image
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain… — Charles Frazier Rain Copy Share Image
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“He is so full of manure, that man, we could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him."… — Charles Frazier Cold mountain Copy Share Image
He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons.… — Charles Frazier Book Copy Share Image
“Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives… — Charles Frazier Bliss Copy Share Image
“People don't change, Lola said. Maybe you're still young enough to pretend that's not true. People are who they are, and everybody… — Charles Frazier People don't change Copy Share Image
He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Some far day when she had become a better person and could feel something besides stinging anger that her beautiful, gentle sister… — Charles Frazier Better person Copy Share Image
“Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. — Charles Frazier Book Copy Share Image
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere.” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred. — Charles Frazier Desire Copy Share Image
“But God in his infinite wisdome had apparently thought it was an entertaining idea for us to always be wanting to get… — Charles Frazier God Copy Share Image
I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Life can get fucked up fast when you try to be a pleaser. Because people won't ever be pleased, not even if… — Charles Frazier Life Copy Share Image
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