Michael > Michael's Quotes

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

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

“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, Lockdown

“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, Lockdown

“Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

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

“Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“This place is full of unwritten rules.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

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

“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, Lockdown

“Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Solitary

“Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“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, Lockdown

“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, Solitary

“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

“That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“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, Solitary

“Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Solitary

“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, Fugitives

“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