That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?

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.

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.

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

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.

Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.