“But she knew the black hole pulled at you. You stand up to it, or you go down.” — Charles Frazier Black hole Copy Share Image
“the path to contentment was to abide by one's own nature and follow it's path.” — Charles Frazier Contentment Copy Share Image
“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn't do you any good whatsoever.” — Charles Frazier World Copy Share Image
Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness. — Charles Frazier Destructiveness Copy Share Image
“The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you.” — Charles Frazier Horror Copy Share Image
“At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.” — Charles Frazier First-sentence Copy Share Image
“If I had a brother in jail and one in Georgia, I'd try to bust the one out of Georgia first.” — Charles Frazier Brother Copy Share Image
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to — Charles Frazier Character 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
Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate. — Charles Frazier Celebrate 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
“...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
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
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
“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
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
...she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was… — Charles Frazier Accord 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 Damp 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
“Monroe had in fact preached that God was not at all such a one as ourselves, not one to be temperamentally inclined… — Charles Frazier God Temperamentally 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
The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster… — Charles Frazier Accommodate 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 Asheville 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
“...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
“In his mind, Inman likened the swirling paths of vulture flight to the coffee grounds seeking pattern in his cup. Anyone could… — Charles Frazier Future Copy Share Image
“On thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held more for him than just pleasure. There was… — Charles Frazier Creation Copy Share Image
“From inside the tavern came the sounds of a fiddle being tuned, various plucks and tentative bowings, then a slow and groping… — Charles Frazier Fiddle Copy Share Image
“Survive long enough and you get to a far point in life where nothing else of particular interest is going to happen.… — Charles Frazier Heartbreak 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 Aim 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
“Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless. On fool impulse, as his most… — Charles Frazier Drinking Copy Share Image
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time. — Charles Frazier Desire Copy Share Image
“Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.” — Charles Frazier Children Copy Share Image
