Bryson Hedrick

“To Ada, Ruby’s monologues seemed composed mainly of verbs, all of them tiring. Plow, plant, hoe, cut, can, feed, kill.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“If I had a brother in jail and one in Georgia, I'd try to bust the one out of Georgia first.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“And they did what lovers often do when they think the future stretches out endless before them as bright as on the noon of creation day: they talked ceaselessly of the past, as if each must be caught up on the other's previous doings before they can move forward paired.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anaemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves. It is disagreeable for me to recall and write these things, but I set them down that my story may lack nothing. Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know what is wrong as well as any, but not what is possible to tortured men. But those who have been under the shadow, who have gone down at last to elemental things, will have a wider charity.”
― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Falcon Classics) [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 46]