Not what I meant. Your contract with anything at home could have been voided when you got here, as soon as you let it be. I meant—
[His hand is in her lap, arm over her knee, a little more so when he leans in, leg against hers. He does hesitate, a moment, over phrasing. She's too keen to take her own meaning to suit her and leave the rest - storing these quotes like a dictionary.]
Whatever you did, here, there was always the chance you'd walk through a door tomorrow and be back in the middle of everything you got away from. That can be a barrier to anyone starting again. It's different, for the dead, here.
[No chance of being whisked back to where they were. There are two viewpoints.
or steps leading into the sea
[His hand is in her lap, arm over her knee, a little more so when he leans in, leg against hers. He does hesitate, a moment, over phrasing. She's too keen to take her own meaning to suit her and leave the rest - storing these quotes like a dictionary.]
Whatever you did, here, there was always the chance you'd walk through a door tomorrow and be back in the middle of everything you got away from. That can be a barrier to anyone starting again. It's different, for the dead, here.
[No chance of being whisked back to where they were. There are two viewpoints.
If you're dead, you're stuck here.
If you're dead, you get to stay.]
It removes some of the risk.