Pale Quotes

“For, truly, no one grows out of it, not the pain of childhood or that lesson into who we are—not the fear it deals or that constant curse of waiting to get out, attempting to progress toward some semblance of your true purpose, regardless of that heaviness right there in the pit of your heart, a bottomless torture that repeats for an eternity as that mere act alone causes us to push and pull and never truly free ourselves of that previous person, place, or thing that has brought us harm.”
― Edward A. Farmer, Pale: A Novel

“God willing, I thought. God willing a lot of things would happen. God willing, we’d find peace in this miserable land. God willing, that home wouldn’t confine us to hate and disgust forever. God willing, we’d forgive and finally let die. God willing, we’d make it to see tomorrow. God willing.”
― Edward A. Farmer, Pale: A Novel

“The boy was just another wanderer amongst us who'd desired to fit in and asked for nothing more of this world than that simple wish to bear his fruit. He was a vagabond, a soul freed from heaven and tarnished, dipped in this earthly pool and rusted like iron, the scars shown upon his heart like Adam when he'd eaten the apple.”
― Edward A. Farmer, Pale

“In that moment he was no longer a slave, as he'd once considered, for his existence inside that house was now a circumstance of his own choosing, although he failed to recognize the score of wealthy men who were each slaves to their fortunes and indeed all of those fanciful tyrants who wielded influence over many people yet held less authority over their own lives than the servants they commanded.”
― Edward A. Farmer, Pale