Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the… — Charles Frazier Believe 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 Music 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
“The window apparently wanted only to take his thoughts back. Which was fine with him, for he had seen the metal face… — Charles Frazier Philosophy of Mind 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 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 Success 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
“...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
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
“So she guessed you could word hard to make yourself who you wanted to be and yet find that the passing years… — Charles Frazier Passing Years 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
“Lola's only nugget of wisdom to her little daughters was Never cry, never ever.” — Charles Frazier Wisdom Copy Share Image
It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well. — Charles Frazier Bad idea 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 Break 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 Comfortable Copy Share Image
“A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the… — Charles Frazier Song Copy Share Image
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to — Charles Frazier Character 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
“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
“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
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
...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
“...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
“The cabins they passed among seemed solemn in their abandonment, cramped by the watercourse and the overhanging brow of the cloudy mountain.… — Charles Frazier Another world Copy Share Image
“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 Dark hair Copy Share Image