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Going bearded seemed one less thing to have to fail at.

It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.

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

His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

A distressingly large portion of the world doesn't do you any good whatsoever.

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

The path to contentment was to abide by one's own nature and follow it's path.

Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.

But she knew the black hole pulled at you. You stand up to it, or you go down.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.

That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.

When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.

You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

Like Dolores and Frank might quit being little glum reavers out to wreck their world.

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

But one day leads to another, and so on. No way around it. It's that merciless thing that time does.

Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

Desire abides. It is all people have that stands proof against time. Everything else rots.

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

I won't go into it any further, other than to say that year by year the world darkens down and things are always going away.

If I had a brother in jail and one in Georgia, I'd try to bust the one out of Georgia first.

But God in his infinite wisdome had apparently thought it was an entertaining idea for us to always be wanting to get up in one another.

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

They did what they did, and moved forward despite whatever trail of ashes they left behind.

If you're not who you want to be, at least act like who you want it be. - Bud

Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

After she had licked the last white drop of the ice cream, she reached out her cone to Mrs. McKennet and said, Here's your little horn back.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

Had that to understand each other by, though otherwise they could not have been more alien to each other. In short

Verbs. All of them tiring.

There was nothing about her story remarkable other than that it was her life.

I've lived out West some ... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere.

The road, they said, was a place apart, a country of its own ruled by no government but natural law, and its one characteristic was freedom.

I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.

Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you.

Lola's only nugget of wisdom to her little daughters was Never cry, never ever.

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Magic singers proclaiming hope and despair in the dark.

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!

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

In her heart, though, she wondered, Is anything remembered forever?

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

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

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

Needing and getting don't seem likely to match up any time soon ... What needs doing is mine to do.

Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.

He is so full of manure, that man, we could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him." Ruby about her dad in "Cold Mountain

And also forever too late for Lily to learn that raging passion predicts nothing but a mess of bad news for everybody.

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. t The husbands lived two hours away...