Alexander Gordon SmithAnd when reality goes, sanity has no reason. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary, p.57, Faber & Faber372Truth
Alexander Gordon SmithI'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 … ▶351DeathHumorLife
Alexander Gordon SmithThere 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… ▶351Politics
Alexander Gordon SmithThat mush plays havoc downstairs, you know? ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown, p.56, Faber & Faber365Humor
Alexander Gordon SmithBetter to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary, p.4… ▶344Reading
Alexander Gordon SmithJust take it from me, Donovan said. Stay well clear of the warden. Some here think he's the devil. I don't, I don't believe in that religious talk, but I know evil when I see it. … ▶378DeathHumanityHumor
Alexander Gordon SmithKnackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.379Death
Alexander Gordon SmithIt'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 (2010). Esca… ▶303Sadness
Alexander Gordon SmithLike 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. ✨ Alex… ▶358Time
Alexander Gordon SmithWhen you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown, p.57, Faber & Faber336Life
Alexander Gordon SmithHope. 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. Ho… ▶242HopeLife
Alexander Gordon SmithNobody cares. You shouldn't either. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown, p.65, Faber & Faber254Reading
Alexander Gordon SmithTrust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown, p.55, Faber & Faber276Reading
Alexander Gordon SmithAs 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 ther… ▶234ThoughtTruth
Alexander Gordon SmithSomething 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… ▶2710HopeLifeTime
Alexander Gordon SmithDon't need a degree in rocket science to do this job. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown, p.59, Faber & Faber247Sadness
Alexander Gordon SmithThe 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. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2012). Fugi… ▶172DeathHumanityTruth
Alexander Gordon SmithThe 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 co… ▶194HumanityPoliticsThought
Alexander Gordon SmithOne last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.2510Reflection
Alexander Gordon SmithBut nobody can run from their own demons. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary, p.3, Faber & Faber217Death
Alexander Gordon SmithLet's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.2310Life
Alexander Gordon SmithLet me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.218Life
Alexander Gordon SmithThis place is full of unwritten rules. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown, p.64, Faber & Faber175Life
Alexander Gordon SmithI 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 (2010). Es… ▶219Humanity
Alexander Gordon SmithOnly another twenty thousand or so days of this to go. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown, p.59, Faber & Faber209Humor
Alexander Gordon SmithDon't make the mistake of bringing your heart down here with you, there is no place for it in Furnace. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown, p.48… ▶145Love
Alexander Gordon SmithWhen 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 - i… ▶179Reflection
Alexander Gordon SmithYou 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 tak… ▶137Politics
