Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes

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• But nobody can run from their own demons.
• And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.
• I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.
• You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked…
• Don't make the mistake of bringing your heart down here with you, there is no place for it in Furnace.
• Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.
• That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?
• When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.
• Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.
• Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.
• Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
• This place is full of unwritten rules.
• There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop…
• Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.
• Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.
• I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a…
• Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.
• Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment…
• The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to…
• Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

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