It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to — Charles Frazier Character Copy Share Image
“If you're not who you want to be, at least act like who you want it be. - Bud” — Charles Frazier Character-description Copy Share Image
“Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.” — Charles Frazier Lily Copy Share Image
If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music. — Charles Frazier Giving Copy Share Image
It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well. — Charles Frazier Bad idea Copy Share Image
I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it. — Charles Frazier Class 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 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 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 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 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
He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything… — Charles Frazier 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 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 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
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
“His spells portrayed the spirit as a frail thing, contstantly under attack and in need of stength, always threatening to die inside… — Charles Frazier Faith 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 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
“They did not talk much while they ate, other than for Ada to say that the Georgia boy did not seem like… — Charles Frazier 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
“If you are in the mountains alone for some time, many days at minimum, & it helps if you are fasting. The… — Charles Frazier Animals 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 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 fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Bleak as the scene was, though, there was growing joy in Inman's heart. He was nearing home; he could feel it in… — Charles Frazier 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
“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
When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Like Dolores and Frank might quit being little glum reavers out to wreck their world.” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm. — Charles Frazier Cold Copy Share Image
“Lola's only nugget of wisdom to her little daughters was Never cry, never ever.” — Charles Frazier Daughters Copy Share Image
“But one day leads to another, and so on. No way around it. It's that merciless thing that time does.” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image