Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes

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When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.

Alexander Gordon Smith
No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.

Alexander Gordon Smith
And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can.

Alexander Gordon Smith
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood and marrow used to be, pushing every other feeling out as it fills you from your feet to your scalp. It leaves you with nothing.

Alexander Gordon Smith
It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

Alexander Gordon Smith
Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

Alexander Gordon Smith
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 or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.

Alexander Gordon Smith
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 tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.

Alexander Gordon Smith
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 off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.

Alexander Gordon Smith
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 to realize what it was. Hope. It had been so long since I'd felt it that the sensation was like something living inside me, something wonderful waiting to break free, just like I was.

Alexander Gordon Smith
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.

Alexander Gordon Smith
Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

Alexander Gordon Smith
Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.

Alexander Gordon Smith
Don't make the mistake of bringing your heart down here with you, there is no place for it in Furnace.

Alexander Gordon Smith
Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.

Alexander Gordon Smith
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 terrible kind of freedom—one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.

Alexander Gordon Smith
Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

Alexander Gordon Smith
Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.

Alexander Gordon Smith