Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. — Charles Frazier Break Copy Share Image
“They agreed they neither gave two hoots now as to how marriages were normally conducted. They would do as they pleased and… — Charles Frazier Marriage Copy Share Image
“Inman guessed Swimmer's spells were right in saying a man's spirit could be torn apart and cease and yet his body keep… — Charles Frazier Life Copy Share Image
But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me.… — Charles Frazier Believe Copy Share Image
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing… — Charles Frazier Bitter Copy Share Image
Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness. — Charles Frazier Destructiveness Copy Share Image
“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
“With the snow piling up outside, the warm dry cabin hidden in its fold of the mountain felt like a safe haven… — Charles Frazier Haven Copy Share Image
“By way of conclusion, Luce said, I lived through it [the rape], so if you can't stand to hear it, you can… — Charles Frazier 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
“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
“Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around… — Charles Frazier Music 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
“Days of yore when America was no more than a strip of land stretching a couple hundred miles west of the Atlantic… — Charles Frazier Thirteen-moons Copy Share Image
“Like Dolores and Frank might quit being little glum reavers out to wreck their world.” — Charles Frazier 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
I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's… — Charles Frazier Book Copy Share Image
“Like when the counselor delved into your habits of using a public toilet, such as do you flush with your foot and… — Charles Frazier Habits Copy Share Image
“She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words… — Charles Frazier First time 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
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 Carolina Copy Share Image
That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway.… — Charles Frazier Bliss Copy Share Image
Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the… — Charles Frazier Consciousness Copy Share Image
