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,….

Nobody cares. You shouldn't either..

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.….

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants t….

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

The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light..

You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or ….

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 ….

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 m….

Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here..

And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can..

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..

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason..

This place is full of unwritten rules..

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

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 i….

One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over..

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 an….

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 ….

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 ….

But nobody can run from their own demons..