Lockdown 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

“Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.”
― 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

“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

“This place is full of unwritten rules.”
― 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

“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

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

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

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

“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, Lockdown

“It felt like I´d been lying on that bed for a thousand years, tormented by every demon possible.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“All for one and let’s get the hell out of here.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“My whole body was aching, my stomach felt like it was unpeeling itself, like I was coming apart. I offered silent prayers that I hadn´t eaten dinner.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“Next I was plunged into a void so profound that I thought I´d gone blind.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“I don't believe that anyone truly loses their fear of the dark. Yeah, grown-ups act like they feel at home when the lights are out, they say there's nothing to be afraid of, that nothing's changed just because you can't see anything.

But they're bluffing.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith;, Lockdown

“...Don't forget your name.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“Sei que foi apenas imaginação, mas poderia jurar que houve algum tipo de impulso elétrico percorrendo nossos dedos unidos. Talvez fizesse muito tempo desde que havia segurado a mão de outra pessoa; muito tempo desde que tinha sentido o contato de alguém. Mas senti uma força a nos unir naquele momento, um vínculo de confiança, amizade e esperança.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“Tentei deter as imagens, porque pareciam muito dolorosas — era uma tortura desejar algo que jamais poderia ter.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“Você é louco, sabia? Com certeza, Alex, você pertence a este lugar; não duvide disso.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“Não cometam o erro de trazer o coração aqui para baixo; não há lugar para ele em Furnace.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“Sob o céu fica o inferno, garotos, e, sob o inferno, Furnace.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“(...)mesmo que você tenha ido ao inferno e voltado, ainda conta com os amigos.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown

“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, Lockdown

“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, Lockdown