Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier
Charles Frazieris an American novelist. He won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction for Cold Mountain...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 November 1950
CountryUnited States of America
wyoming nebraska west
I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.
people why-not bitter
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?
children pain heart
...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.
thinking journey cold-mountain
Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.
verbs tire
Verbs. All of them tiring.
believe dark soul
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.
pain skins worst
Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.
hurt forever sin
Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.
needs cold-mountain seems
Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.
wish wipe goes-on
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
long desire redemption
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.
spirit cold-mountain cases
He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.
break happened
Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
character cold-mountain foul
We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical