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.

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

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.

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.

Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

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.