Alexander Gordon Smith famous quotes

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.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Hands #Long #Waiting

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

#World #Weight #Earth

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

#Fighting #Imagination #Enemy

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.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Light #People #World

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.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Fear #Mean #Night

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.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Liars #Hero #Criminals

Just 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. He's something rotten they dragged from the bowels of the earth, something they patched together from darkness and filth. He'll be the death of us all, every single one of us here in Furnace. Only question is when." "I know one thing," I added. "The warden certainly brings out peoples dramatic sides." Zee and Donovan both laughed through their noses.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Religious #Believe #Thinking

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

#Reality #Skulls #Mind

Hope. 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. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Believe #Get Better #Important

One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Lasts

But nobody can run from their own demons.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Running #Demon

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Reality #Sanity #Reason

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.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Darkness #World #Ends

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

#Reality #Survival #Tools

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.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Powerful #Forever #Leaving

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

#Cells #Two #People

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

#Hockey #Player #Puck

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

#Taken #Night

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

#Mistake #Heart

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

#Toilets #Firsts #Trust Me

That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Play #Havoc

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

#Littles #Welcome #Locked Up

Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Twenties #Thousand

Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Jobs #Degrees #Needs

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

#Inmates #Follow Me #Easier

This place is full of unwritten rules.
-- 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

#Mean #Kids #Licking

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

#Stupid #Kids #Causes

Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Care #Nobody Cares

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

#Laughter #Pain #Impossible

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.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Fall #Humanity #Stories