Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes

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

This place is full of unwritten rules.

The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.

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.

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

That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?

One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.

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

Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

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

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.

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

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

But nobody can run from their own demons.

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

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

You don't have to be perfect to be good. You can do bad things and still be a good person.

I guess a little bit hero is enough. A little bit hero is all anyone really needs to be.

This thing was what existed before life, before the first stars, before the big bang. It was the emptiness before the universe, and the emptiness that would follow.

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

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