“[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 MountainSource: Cold Mountain
“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
“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 MountainSource: Cold Mountain
“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