Quotes from Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

He said, I've been coming for you on a hard road. I'm never letting you go. Never.

Quit puzzling over it. The worst you can do is fail to kill a turkey and there's not a hunter in the world hasn't done that. Go on.

educated beyond the point considered wise for females

It seemed a poor swap to find that the only way one might keep from fearing death was to act numb and set apart as if dead already, with nothing much left of yourself but a hut of bones

No matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're 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, it's knowing you carry your scars with you.

She had made her way to a place where an entirely other order prevailed from what she had always known.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

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

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, 'Shit, it's raining!

Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home.