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Execution (Escape from Furnace, #5) Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith
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“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, Execution
“One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“We are all puppets hanging over an ocean of madness.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“Death is never the end.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“My head, my rules.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“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, Execution
“We are all puppets hanging over an ocean of madness...All it takes is one simple snip and we fall.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“I knew that if I let the darkness take me now then I´d never see the light again.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“Thats the best thing about endings: they have to be beginnings, too.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“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, Execution
“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 unshakable, golden belief that things can get better.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“It alters your mind, too. Strips away all the weakness. And most people, when it comes down to it, that´s all that´s there underneath - weakness. When that´s gone, when all all the pathetic emotions are gone, all that´s left is anger, hatred. That´s what those creatures are - they´re what´s left when you take away everything human.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“It was terror, I realised, the kind reserved for nightmares, when your mind has no defence against the dark. It was the most primitive, most powerful emotion of all, and I had never, ever felt it like this. This wasn´t just a fear of losing my life, but a fear of losing my soul.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“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, Execution
“But I'm starting to understand that you don't have to be perfect to be good. You can do bad things and still be a good person.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“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, Execution
“He´s been shown a world in which he was more than just a kid, more than just a victim of injustice. He´d been shown a future where he could take his revenge. I´d been there, I knew exactly how that felt.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“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, Execution
“Oh, nevermind, forget it, said Zee, obviously disgusted to be in such badly read company.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“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—is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
“You don't have to be perfect to be good. You can do bad things and still be a good person.”
Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution