Jack Henry Abbott

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#deep #deep inside #helpless #infant #innocent

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#civil #dead #ghost #i #i am

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#desperate #escape #i #many #me

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#even #malice #nothing #over #your

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#every #every day #further #how #hurts

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#emotions #experiences #feels #horrible #lives

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#free #free world #i #one time #six

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#i #look #mirror #painful

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#atmospheric #convey #i #long-term #might

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#brain #escape #eyes #i #i am