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It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

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Alexander Gordon Smith
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: February 27
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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.
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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.
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Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.
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Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.
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Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.
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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.
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Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.
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No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.
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And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.
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This place is full of unwritten rules.
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Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
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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.
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Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.
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Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.
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As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare.
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Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.
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Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.
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And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can.
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One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.
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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.
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