"At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring."
— Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain (Paperback))

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

""And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.""
— Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain (Paperback))