I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only for…

Alexander Gordon Smith
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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. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown, p.144, Faber & Faber
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