“My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word… — Charles Frazier Biting 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 Might 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 Bad news 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 Areas Copy Share Image
People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances. — Charles Frazier Circumstances Copy Share Image
Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to… — Charles Frazier Flash Copy Share Image
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
I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can… — Charles Frazier Bitter Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let… — Charles Frazier Books Copy Share Image
So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and… — Charles Frazier Age Copy Share Image
She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life… — Charles Frazier Age Copy Share Image
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended… — Charles Frazier Brutal 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
“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
“They did not talk much while they ate, other than for Ada to say that the Georgia boy did not seem like… — Charles Frazier Did Talk 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
“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
“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
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
“He floated along thinking he would like to love the world as it was, and he felt a great deal of accomplishment… — Charles Frazier Accomplishment Copy Share Image
“After she had licked the last white drop of the ice cream, she reached out her cone to Mrs. McKennet and said,… — Charles Frazier Ice cream 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 Bike 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
[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 Made 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 Goes on 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 Depends 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
“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 Day night 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 Man Asked 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
“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 had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything… — Charles Frazier Clear 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
“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
He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out… — Charles Frazier Burned 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
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
“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
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