Alexander Gordon Smith - Lockdown (2009)

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

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

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

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
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
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