The Gallows Pole Quotes

“Fuck the king because you can be sure the king is already fucking you.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole

“Yes my sleep it was diysturbed by the sound of the moore tryin to get into my room an the sound of the moore tryin to get into my bed and the moore tryin to get into my mind becors it can do that can the moore and no man can sleep in that state no Not unless thur in a coffing.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole

“David Hartley appeared of the earth, of the moors. A man of smoke and peat and heather and fire, his body built for the hills. Where one began the other ended.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole

“The half mile walk down steep slopes to Hebden Bridge might as well have been a thousand times that; Heptonstall was its own world, a cloud land of scratching rain and whirlpool skies.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole

“I'm old enough to know that the world stays much the same, continued their father. Rain falls and puddles gather. Puddles become streams and streams become rivers. Leaves grow and leaves fall and the sun always sets westwards. The moor is the moor and the wind always blows.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole

“He finds himself nostalgic for a time he has never known.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole