Quotes by Charles Frazier

Charles Frazier

…she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design, offering little relief from pain, for being in accord with it means that the fortunate find themselves orphaned.

Children

Heart

Pain

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one’s life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

Matter

Redemption

Waste

A lizard in the spring – hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly – go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground – root a mountain down.

Roots

Spring

Wings

But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I’m dead and in a box in the dark dark ground, and all my various souls have died and I am nothing but insensible bones, something in the marrow will still feel yearning, desire persisting beyond flesh.

Believe

Dark

Soul

But she couldn’t dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike any of her old boyfriends. And maybe who you fell for and who you eventually loved wasn’t rational, no matter how hard you tried to list pros and cons and sum the results. You couldn’t think your way through it, not all the way. Maybe just the scent of somebody carried more weight than everything else put together.

Bullshit

Light

Thinking

Disease is nature’s revenge for our destructiveness.

Destructiveness

Disease

Revenge

From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary’s childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.

Memories

Men

War

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Might

Names

Regret

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

Book

Woods

Years

I know I don’t need him, but I think I want him.

Needs

Thinking

Want

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Air

Available

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Biting

Bitter

Book

Boys

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Character

Children

Clever

Cold Mountain

Colorado

Comforting

Consciousness

Conversation

Dark

Destructiveness

Disease

Father

Fire

Foul

Goes On

Good Things

Grandparent

Hate

Heart

Horse

House

Ideas

Knowing

Knows

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Light

Literature

Long

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Might

Mind

Mines

Mistake

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Quotes by Charles Frazier

Charles Frazier

…she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design, offering little relief from pain, for being in accord with it means that the fortunate find themselves orphaned.

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one’s life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

A lizard in the spring – hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly – go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground – root a mountain down.

Disease is nature’s revenge for our destructiveness.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

I know I don’t need him, but I think I want him.

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