Like Dolores and Frank might quit being little glum…

“They [in the northern country] had, as well, invented a holiday called Thanksgiving, which Ruby had only recently got news of, but from what…

— Charles Frazier

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

— Charles Frazier

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old…

— Charles Frazier

“Monroe had in fact preached that God was not at all such a one as ourselves, not one to be temperamentally inclined to tread…

— Charles Frazier

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

— Charles Frazier

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

— Charles Frazier

“Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. The husbands lived two hours away...”

— Charles Frazier

The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you…

— Charles Frazier

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

— Charles Frazier

“When Ada disappeared into the trees, it was like a part of the richness of the world had gone with her. He had been…

— Charles Frazier

Verbs. All of them tiring.

— Charles Frazier

You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

— Charles Frazier

“If I had a brother in jail and one in Georgia, I'd try to bust the one out of Georgia first.”

— Charles Frazier

“His spells portrayed the spirit as a frail thing, contstantly under attack and in need of stength, always threatening to die inside you. Inman…

— Charles Frazier

“At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.”

— Charles Frazier