Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes

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“As soon as reality breaks, as soon as were separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare ..”
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“When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.”

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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.

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

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“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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“Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.”

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

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Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

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“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.”

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“That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?”

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“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.”

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“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

As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare ..

— Alexander Gordon Smith

“We are all puppets hanging over an ocean of madness.”

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“I pushed until I felt his [Donovan's] body grow still, the tendons in his neck relaxing. I pushed until I felt the mouth beneath the pillow droop, one last dull groan fading into silence. And I kept pushing, because I couldn't bear to pull the pillow away to see what I'd done.
"You're free," I said. I closed my eyes, saw Donovan as he had been. One last smile, then he faded.”

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“Death is never the end.”

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“I wondered how many voices there were living in my head, and how they could all have such different opinions.”

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“You don't see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing shoulder to shoulder with someone even when the world is falling apart around you.”

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“And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can.”

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All it needed was me, and my fear. Because alone in the silence, in the unfathomable darkness, I knew that my own thoughts would drive me mad. My own mind would kill me.

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“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.”

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“My head, my rules.”

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“There was only Furnace. It was our world, our grave, our hell.”

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“Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing.”

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“Don't give in, Alex, don't let them win. You beat them once and you can do it again. Don't let this place break you. Keep your mind busy, keep yourself occupied, find things to do. If you're doing things, then you still exist, right?”

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And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

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“Death, it doesnt seem so scarey, you know? Not when you have got the sky over you and the wind on your face.”

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“The two of them holding each other, the tears flowing freely now, as if by never letting go they would never have to say goodbye.”

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“Oh, nevermind, forget it, said Zee, obviously disgusted to be in such badly read company.”

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The tea-infused steam was another smell that brought back a fistful of memories, and I let them come. Better to open the door for them, even if they are sad, than to let them burn your house down from the outside.

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Yeah, because you'll really be showing them, won't you. Talk about cutting up your wrists to spite your fate.

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“Ten minutes after that and the inmates of Furnace were starting to feel invincible, running around the prison looking for the hidden security cameras and shouting insults at the warden. Some were even flashing their backsides at him, or relieving themselves over the black eyes in the rock, and I couldn't help but laugh as I pictured him sitting in his quarters effectively getting pissed on.”

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“Welcome home, Soldier of Furnace.”

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He had always thought that hell would be hot. But here they were, right inside the mouth of it, and it was freezing.

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“Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.”

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“What if that was the fate of all of us, turned into the very basest of creatures, the very essence of evil?”