214 Quotes by Charles Frazier

Even on the worst days, details of her old life seemed like a museum exhibition, artifacts to study and understand in historical context.

Taking the life of a nation is a serious task, V says. Few succeed, even if the cause is just. We didn’t, and ours wasn’t. But sometimes I can’t help missing those days when we all just took care of each other.

Luce, sitting near the back, all of this new to her, likes to believe her children are nothing like a pair of copperheads amid a field of sweet brown mice.

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.

Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. t The husbands lived two hours away...

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

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.

The window apparently wanted only to take his thoughts back. Which was fine with him, for he had seen the metal face of the age and had been so stunned by it that when he thought into the future, all he could vision was a world from which everything he had counted important had been banished or had willingly fled.

Ada wondered about his hundreds of tunes. Where were they now and where might they go if he died.