Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes & Sayings

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. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

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

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

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

Still no pain as such, just that infuriating itch. — Alexander Gordon Smith

Welcome home, Soldier of Furnace. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

And what could the darkness be, other than humanity? This crushing, heavy mass of people who had no legitimate right to life. How many souls lived on earth now? Six billion? Seven? All of them like insects, crawling around on their hands and knees or slaughtering one another in pursuit of scraps. They were ignorant, they were cruel, they were the night that smothered the day. They did not deserve their existence. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

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. — Alexander Gordon Smith

I pushed until I felt his [Donovan's] body grow still, the tendons in his neck relaxing. I pushed until I felt the mouth beneath the pillow droop, one last dull groan fading into silence. And I kept pushing, because I couldn't bear to pull the pillow away to see what I'd done.
"You're free," I said. I closed my eyes, saw Donovan as he had been. One last smile, then he faded. — Alexander Gordon Smith

Don't give in, Alex, don't let them win. You beat them once and you can do it again. Don't let this place break you. Keep your mind busy, keep yourself occupied, find things to do. If you're doing things, then you still exist, right? — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

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

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

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

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

Thats the best thing about endings: they have to be beginnings, too. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

Ten minutes after that and the inmates of Furnace were starting to feel invincible, running around the prison looking for the hidden security cameras and shouting insults at the warden. Some were even flashing their backsides at him, or relieving themselves over the black eyes in the rock, and I couldn't help but laugh as I pictured him sitting in his quarters effectively getting pissed on. — Alexander Gordon Smith

The tea-infused steam was another smell that brought back a fistful of memories, and I let them come. Better to open the door for them, even if they are sad, than to let them burn your house down from the outside. — Alexander Gordon Smith

This thing was what existed before life, before the first stars, before the big bang. It was the emptiness before the universe, and the emptiness that would follow. — Alexander Gordon Smith

My head, my rules. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

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

But they're bluffing. I defy even the bravest adult to spend the night in a place like Furnace in the pitch black without thinking that every noise is something right behind you with dagger teeth and eyes of silver and blood on its breath; that every whisper of air that runs over your skin is the rush of a descending blade; that every flicker of movement is a tendril of darkness wrapping itself around your throat and coiling in the pit of your belly, where it feasts on your soul. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

The Wookiee gambit.' he said with a smile. I didn't have a clue what he was talking about, but somewhere in my head a distant memory was forming. He raised an eyebrow. 'Christ, Alex, what have they done to your brain? You don't remember Star Wars? — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

All it needed was me, and my fear. Because alone in the silence, in the unfathomable darkness, I knew that my own thoughts would drive me mad. My own mind would kill me. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All for one and let's get the hell out of here. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

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

There was only Furnace. It was our world, our grave, our hell. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

Nobody cares. You shouldn't either. — 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

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

This place is full of unwritten rules. — Alexander Gordon Smith

We are all puppets hanging over an ocean of madness. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

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

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

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

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? — Alexander Gordon Smith

Death is never the end. — Alexander Gordon Smith

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

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

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

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

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