“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.”
“You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.”
“I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.”
“I laugh with them because it is one of the worst things to be in a room full of people and not laughting when everybody else is.”
“I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.”
“It isn't that I didn't question why I spent all my days waiting”