214 Quotes by Charles Frazier

Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dull would be the soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty.

I’ve never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

I do know that however hard you try, you can’t see the inside tangle of somebody else’s love – or whatever uglier word applies – not deep enough to make sense of it.

History in the making, at least on the personal level, is almost exclusively pathetic. People suffer and die in ignorance and delusion.

You try your best to love the world despite obvious flaws in design and execution and you take care of whatever needy things present themselves to you during your passage through it. Otherwise you’re worthless.

But Luce takes the attitude, when you start fretting the day-by- day you lose track of the long view. And the long view is, they need to learn to speak for themselves and do the best they can. For now, if they bag their own lunch and it’s pickles and prunes and they say the words, all you do is put both thumbs up and say, Good job.

Magic singers proclaiming hope and despair in the dark.

I don’t know facts, and probably there aren’t any to know. Whatever crazy thing people want to believe, that’s what they call it, a fact.

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held more for him than just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument against the notion that things just happen.