Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.” — Charles Frazier 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
What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But… — Charles Frazier Assault Copy Share Image
“I consider it a mutual duty, that we owe to each other, to communicate in a spirit of the utmost frankness and… — Charles Frazier Ada 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 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 Rape Copy Share Image
“I won't go into it any further, other than to say that year by year the world darkens down and things are… — Charles Frazier Going away 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 Copy Share Image
The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction.… — Charles Frazier Chicago 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 Thought Copy Share Image
“Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something… — Charles Frazier Life Copy Share Image
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early… — Charles Frazier Appalachian 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
...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
“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
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
“I cannot decide whether it is an illness or a sin, the need to write things down and fix the flowing world… — Charles Frazier Memory 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 Copy Share Image
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling… — Charles Frazier Bird 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 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out… — 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
“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
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
[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
![“By way of conclusion, Luce said, I lived through it [the rape], so if you can't stand to hear it, you can take me home and go to hell. Men get so damn strange sometimes.” quote by Charles Frazier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/903/charles-frazier-3165_rape_by-way-of-conclusion-luce-said-i-lived-t_1941010.png)
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