Susan

“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

“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.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

“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.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“Life can get fucked up fast when you try to be a pleaser. Because people won't ever be pleased, not even if you drop them ass-first into paradise. They like bitching too much.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods