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Cold Mountain

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Thirteen Moons

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Famous Charles Frazier Quotes

“When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.”

Charles Frazier

“Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.”

Charles Frazier

Source: Nightwoods

“Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.”

Charles Frazier

“What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

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

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier Quotes about life

“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”

Charles Frazier

“So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.”

Charles Frazier

“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier Quotes

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

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“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 be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you."
"Why not me?”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“Verbs. All of them tiring.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”

Charles Frazier

Source: Nightwoods

“That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.”

Charles Frazier book Thirteen Moons

Source: Thirteen Moons

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