“He should have gone further than the poolhouse in search of his new life.”
“…half-assed effort only dug him from one cell to another.”
“He should never look back and never be heard from again. That’s what adulthood looks like and that’s what it costs. That’s what it takes to maintain the open independence of your seas; you have to leap out of the barrel and into the ocean, not seek freedom *in *the barrel.”