“...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.” HeartMeanChildrenLittlesPainOrderDiesParentDesignParticularFortunateReliefOfferingHarshPreferenceAccord Book:Cold Mountain: A Novel Source: Cold Mountain: A Novel
“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.” LittlesBookMomentsAsksSeasonsDollarsPlantWoodsIdiotEmployersFractionsFrantic Book:Nightwoods: A Novel Source: Nightwoods: A Novel
“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.” LittlesBookAsksHealingSeasonsPlantWoodsFrantic Book:Nightwoods: A Novel Source: Nightwoods: A Novel
“One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.” WellsLittlesSaidBookHouseBoysGoodnessLaysUniversityDinnerFacultyProfessorsOne TimeGrandparentInsultedColoradoPlumbingIndoor Plumbing Author:Charles Frazier
“Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.” GivingLittlesI CanLastsComfortableGive MeProductionsUncomfortableMore TimePhasesPublishersDeadline Author:Charles Frazier
