“He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.” MightNamesRegretDecidedSevenCold Mountain Book:Cold Mountain Source: Cold Mountain
“One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then 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 that life did not just happen.” WaySaidMightHappensFormSoundPleasureDealsPowerfulOne ThingAirCreationShapesArgumentAimMeatRight WayComfortingFadedAstonishmentCold Mountain Author: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.” WorldLongHas BeensMightPurposeSpaceTakenClearEmptyFilledMight Have BeenSomething BetterCold Mountain Book:Cold Mountain Source: Cold Mountain
“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.” IfsMindStatesMightAgeCoursesLiteratureInterestLosesState Of MindSeemingCold Mountain Book:Cold Mountain: A Novel Source: Cold Mountain: A Novel
“From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.” IfsMenMadeStillsWarStoriesMightRememberNamesMemoriesChildhoodLateMurderTinyViolentCivil WarKillersMaryPaleBrutalConfusingOld WomanDead ManChildhood MemoriesFinale Author:Charles Frazier
“I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about just one that's kind of mysterious and nice. On the other hand, the New York gossip about me was that I'd never write another book. So I thought, 'Well, I will then.” WritingWellsKindMadeBookHandsMightDecisionNiceNew YorkMysteriousJust OneGossipHarper Author:Charles Frazier
