Bright's Passage Quotes

“It was the blue of the sky that caught him first: a rapturous, painfully pure spike of color that hooked his eyes like fish and reeled them upward into the heights.”
― Josh Ritter, Bright's Passage

“At times throughout the night, they seemed to turn from real, living people into mere photographs of people, and then from photographs into memories, which are like photographs, and finally, as the ground blurred beneath them, whatever parts of them that could be seen from afar seemed to float like ghosts in the rippling air as they went about their work.”
― Josh Ritter, Bright's Passage

“Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.”
― Josh Ritter, Bright's Passage

“The hardware man had measured out the nails, offered his condolences, and then asked Bright if he'd considered signing up to go to the war...With his mother dead, there was nothing really to stay for. Bright had signed his name, listened wordlessly to the instructions the man gave him, and then headed back to the cabin with an extra portion of nails for being the first to sign up in the book. It had been as easy as falling in a river.”
― Josh Ritter, Bright's Passage