The Black Farm Quotes

“Love is a powerful thing, is it not? It can build us up and tear us down with the force of a thousand suns. It is an elusive idea and a fantasy that so many strive their whole lives to feel…while others are left devastated by the ruin it can leave in its wake. Love is both good and evil. It is the antidote and the poison of your entire species.”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“This is the Black Farm. This is where God sends the souls who have ended their own lives. Do you understand?”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“You’re my life. And you’re my death. I can’t survive without you. I want to…” I paused. “I want to just drift off to sleep”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“Men with self-created purpose is a dangerous thing and I felt its jaws all around me.”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“Our assailant was naked and covered in ugly scabs that peppered his flabby rolls.”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“You can only bend for so long before the inevitable break and when you do, you don’t have time to worry about the pieces you lose in the process.”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“What kind of malicious fuck was running the show up there…?”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“My thoughts returned to me in my broken state. They came creeping in like darkness over the setting sun. They bared their teeth and sliced at me with sharp claws, pounding across the shores of my mind like frothing waves.”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“I’ve already been broken. But you know what? I put myself back together. You know what’s different now, though?” Danny just glared at me. “All those broken pieces have edges now, fucker,”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“For a race obsessed with material objects, isn’t it funny that the most desired possession of the human heart…is love?”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“the moment you think you’re in control is the moment this place will destroy you all over again.”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“What kind of deity desires to inflict such suffering on those who have already suffered so much?”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“I know that the entire Farm is terrified of you. The Eyes of the World! The Gods on the Mountain! Oh, they are just shaking in their boots down there. I’m always being told, ‘We mustn’t talk about the Eyes, don’t mention the Eyes’…and look at you. A pair of pathetic egomaniacs who think they’re special because their masters trusted them enough to spy on The Pig.”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“I tried to stand, but I was so shaken I found that I couldn’t.”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“Jesus, I thought, it’s like some kind of twisted incense.”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm

“They were in a single file formation and the head of the group swung something from a chain in front of him like a pendulum. I squinted and realized it was a skull. The top of the head had been caved in and filled with burning coals.”
― Elias Witherow, The Black Farm