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

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

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment to realize what it was. Hope. It had been so long since I'd felt it that the sensation was like something living inside me, something wonderful waiting to break free, just like I was.

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.

That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?

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