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 FrazierOr 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 FrazierWhat you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. Youโre 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, itโs knowing you carry your scars with you.
Charles FrazierPeople who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.
Charles FrazierAsk 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