You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.

No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.

Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.