Cold Mountain Quotes

He talked at length through the morning about history, teaching the older students of grand wars fought in ancient England. (1.5)

Inman never did know what seized him at that moment, but he stepped out the door and set the hat on his head at a dapper rake and walked away, never to return. (1.5)

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain. Cold Mountain: there's no through trail. –Han-shan, Epigraph to Cold Mountain

As Inman sat brooding and pining for his lost self, one of Swimmer's creekside stories rushed into his memory with a great urgency and attractiveness. Swimmer claimed that above the blue vault of h...

He put his hands to her shoulders a moment and she settled back with her head beneath his chin. Ada remembered thinking that she never wished to leave this place but was not aware that she had said...

Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, Go home. (1.37)

Inman had been given the happy job of escorting a few heifers to graze the last grass of summer in the high balds on Balsam Mountain. He had taken a packhorse loaded with cooking tools, side meat,...

At another time the scene might have had about it a note of the jaunty. All the elements that composed it suggested the legendary freedom of the open road: the dawn of day, sunlight golden and at a...