Winter Journey Quotes

“Every human heart keeps a record of its own deeds.”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: for loving a true love. Legs: to run after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind, For learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved. The eye goes blind When it only wants to see why. A”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“why the IPN in its wisdom has decided to”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“unselfish really means,’ he mused.”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“propensity Halina had discovered”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“red-rimmed eyes over her.”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“But the vet said milk was bad for cats.’ Everything was constantly being turned upside down. Milk used to be good for humans as well as for cats, but now it seemed it was harmful for both. What”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“As the baby’s first cry filled the barn, Yossel placed his hand over the tiny mouth. Tears streamed down his face as he invoked curses on the heads of the persecutors of the innocent for ever and ever. The cry died away and the tiny body grew limp. Without”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“If you only had one week to investigate this issue, you’d come up with an answer, but if you studied it for a lifetime, you’d never get to the truth.”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“The most useful form of DNA is mitrochondrial DNA which is passed without any changes from mothers to children, generation after generation. That’s how they identified the remains of Tsar Nicolas, by comparing his mtDNA with that of the Duke of Edinburgh who was related through the Tsar’s mother.”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“Of all the negative emotions, envy was the hardest to conceal.”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“I’ve been looking into the jaws of hell,’ Halina said, rubbing her hands in front of the fire. ‘I have to know what you think about evil. What makes people capable of inhuman cruelty?’ He was about to speak but she interrupted. ‘And please don’t tell me about original sin!’ He chuckled. ‘As long as you don’t quote Rousseau and tell me that man was born perfect but was corrupted by his environment!’ They both laughed. ‘For the past two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have torn their hair out trying to find the answer and you want it distilled into one sentence!’ She waited.”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“Perhaps when you dug down to the core of evil, all you found was a void, an emotional numbness more terrifying than any malevolence. Was the demarcation line between decent people and bloodthirsty brutes so faint that it was possible to step over it without even feeling a twinge of conscience?”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“I saw her a few days before —’ He stopped mid-sentence and looked out of the window. He hadn’t returned in time to hear what his mother had wanted to tell him. Halina sensed that the conversation was over and wondered what lay beneath the pained look on his face. The death of a mother always left children with regrets but she had imagined it would be different for a priest.”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“Now that it was too late, Halina wished she had found a way of breaking down that wall and reaching the woman on the other side.”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“When power is in the hands of people with hate in their hearts and weapons in their hands, the law of the jungle takes over.”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“When we came to the dirt path that led to a barn”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

“trickled the hot water over her neck and shoulders”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey