“You don’t think the thought’s occurred to me? But the more I thought about it, the more it was just another empty promise. ‘End it all’? It doesn’t end anything. Everyone who loves you is sad, and the ones who hate you are happy. Just makes the situation worse. That’s the first thing you find out when you get old: all the easy exits are just fake doors painted on brick, like in those old Road Runner cartoons. Do kids still watch those?”
