We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical — Charles Frazier Character Copy Share Image
Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake… — Charles Frazier Beauty Copy Share Image
“...as was true of all human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not… — Charles Frazier Advancement Copy Share Image
“Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. The husbands lived two… — Charles Frazier Husbands Copy Share Image
“When Luce did look in the mirror, she thought she might still be sort of pretty, if you went by what most… — Charles Frazier Mirror Copy Share Image
“They did not talk much while they ate, other than for Ada to say that the Georgia boy did not seem like… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“They were both at such an age that they stood on a cusp. They could think in one part of their minds… — Charles Frazier Cold Copy Share Image
Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if… — Charles Frazier Change Copy Share Image
“Monroe had in fact preached that God was not at all such a one as ourselves, not one to be temperamentally inclined… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“By now he had stared at the window through a late summer so hot and wet that the air both day and… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
...she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“... a man's spirit could be torn apart and cease and yet his body keep on living...His spirit blasted away so that… — Charles Frazier Death Copy Share Image
What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“They [in the northern country] had, as well, invented a holiday called Thanksgiving, which Ruby had only recently got news of, but… — Charles Frazier Holiday Copy Share Image
“In the hovering between sleep and wakefulness, lucid but dreaming, Luce's mind got away from her, and all kinds of empty shit… — Charles Frazier Dreams Copy Share Image
I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from… — Charles Frazier Book Copy Share Image