Mike C

“Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light declaration about freedom in the other. And then an outlaw sticks a pistol in his face and says give me one or the other. Every time—every ten out of ten —he'll hug the sack and throw away the ideals. Because the sack’s what’s behind the ideals, like the foundation under a building.”
― Charles Frazier, Varina

“It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.”
― Charles Frazier

“Verbs. All of them tiring.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain