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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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