Mountain Fast Quotes

“I cannot describe to you what it is to burn alive. To lose one's hair in an appalling gust, to hear the fat sizzle beneath one's crackling skin. To have one's vision filed with red and then black as one's eyeballs burst. The pain is indistinguishable from the flames. The flames, they are a scream. A chorus roaring from every pore, singing agony. Agony - no, the notion is too bounded, the name inadequate fro that mystery which transmutes a live layer by layer, to matter.”
― S.J. Shank, Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror

“Roots that run so deep have no trouble piercing stone.”
― S.J. Shank, Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror

“People are afraid of the forest but chiefly it is other people one must fear between the trees.”
― S.J. Shank, Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror

“You never knew whom not to trust.”
― S.J. Shank, Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror

“The trees grew up and around the village and told a tale of all that might be lost to man and how quickly the forest might conquer his works.”
― S.J. Shank, Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror

“Maybe Kuszkol is situated in a wild, wild place. High in the mountains. They say that when the snow piles thick and the air grows still, even the birds loathe to fly lest their flapping disturb the mountain's peace. Imagine the vastness of that place, way up high in the sky. Totally silent. And cold.”
― S.J. Shank, Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror