Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be.

Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.

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.

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

But nobody can run from their own demons.

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

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.