“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

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American writer 1950

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