Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes

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

It surged inside me, setting every nerve ending alight, making me feel like I could snap my fingers and stop time, cut the stars from the heavens.

Are you children of God" he asked. I almost burst out laughing, managing to bite mny tongue before it erupted.

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

This place is full of unwritten rules.

Oh, nevermind, forget it, said Zee, obviously disgusted to be in such badly read company.

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.

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

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.

Death is never the end.

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

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

All for one and let's get the hell out of here.

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

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

There was only Furnace. It was our world, our grave, our hell.

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

I wondered how many voices there were living in my head, and how they could all have such different opinions.

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

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

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.

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

And like I've said before, sometimes its better to do bad things for the right reasons than good things for the wrong ones. Right?

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

The two of them holding each other, the tears flowing freely now, as if by never letting go they would never have to say goodbye.

Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.

And if there is nothing left of you but darkness, how can you not become a monster?

But nobody can run from their own demons.

My head, my rules.

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

What if that was the fate of all of us, turned into the very basest of creatures, the very essence of evil?

That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?

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

Still no pain as such, just that infuriating itch.

Death, it doesnt seem so scarey, you know? Not when you have got the sky over you and the wind on your face.

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

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

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

We are all puppets hanging over an ocean of madness.

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

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

Welcome home, Soldier of Furnace.

Thats the best thing about endings: they have to be beginnings, too.