Charles Frazier Quotes

30 Sourced Quotes

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
All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

Charles Frazier
Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

Charles Frazier
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

Charles Frazier
What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?

Charles Frazier
My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

Charles Frazier
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

Charles Frazier
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.

Charles Frazier
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

Charles Frazier
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.

Charles Frazier
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
No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

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

Charles Frazier
And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

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

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.

Charles Frazier
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.

Charles Frazier
Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if they were desperate to be somebody different from who they were. So, best keep your distance.

Charles Frazier
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.

Charles Frazier
We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

Charles Frazier
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.

Charles Frazier
[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
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
That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.

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

Charles Frazier
When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Charles Frazier
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
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
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
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.

Charles Frazier