Bitter Passage Quotes

“God does not enter into transactions. One cannot buy a ticket to His grace.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“Once the unknown is known, it may lose its allure, but until then, it shines very, very brightly.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“Purgatory is not a place of purifying fire; it is a place of ice and cold, a kingdom of wind and bones and monsters and dead things.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“Courage and trust in God are indivisible.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“But surely the Arctic is a wilderness. There are no paths there. None that wind back to England, at least.” Adams regarded her with gentle reproach. “It is there, as yet undiscovered. What is any path but bare earth before the first boots tread upon it?”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“He found himself thinking that how a man dies can determine how he is remembered, far more than how he lived.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“boldest lies”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“Below him, a dim figure in a lighter pulled on his oar in the darkness. Sure of his direction, the man required no lamp.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“The ocean to the east was as black as old blood.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“faith was a strength. He now suspected it sustained and blinded him in equal measure.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“your faith is your greatest strength.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“javelins from among the chunks of ice”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“Cold and darkness feed repentance in a man, as wood feeds a fire.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“He marvelled at the ability of the pious to discern the presence of the divine in the merely peculiar.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“one’s darker thoughts, which fattened into malignant obsessions one had no hope of overcoming.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“that man is the hound chasing the carriage, barking and howling, wanting this strange and exotic thing. We lust after it. Die for it. But we have not the slightest notion of what we shall do with it when we catch it.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“he had wondered how a man like him became a man like them. It no longer seemed such a mystery.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“I think a man’s resolve crumbles in stages,” he said. “Like a castle in the sand washed away by the incoming tide. Once swept away, it loses all cohesion and cannot be reconstituted.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“Seek happiness in tranquillity, and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“Absolute faith unsettled him. He thought it lazy for a man to submit so utterly to an invisible power, especially one so capricious.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage