We'll drive. Keep driving. Head out to the middle of nowhere, take that road as far as it takes us. It's beautiful out there, like a different world. Mountains, hills, cows, farms, and white churches. Every man, woman, and child alive should see the desert one time before they die. Nothin' at all for miles around. Nothin' but sand and rocks and cactus and blue sky. Not a soul in sight. No sirens. No car alarms. Nobody honkin' atcha. No madmen cursin' or pissin' in the streets. You find the silence out there, you find the peace. So we drive west, keep driving till we find a nice little town. These towns out in the desert, you know why they got there? People wanted to get way from somewhere else. The desert's for startin' over.
You'll get a job somewhere, a job that pays cash, a boss who doesn't ask questions, and you make a new life and you never come back. People like you, it's a gift, you'll make friends wherever you go. You're going to work hard, you're going to keep your head down and your mouth shut. You're going to make yourself a new home out there. You'll miss your friends, you'll miss your dog, but you're strong. You got your mother's backbone in you, you're strong like she was. You forget your old life. You can't come back. You can't call, you can't write. You never look back. You make a new life for yourself and you live it, you hear me? You live your life the way it should have been.
You get yourself a new family and you raise them right, you hear me? Give them a good life, Monty. Give them what they need. You tell them the whole story. Then you ask them if they know how lucky there are to be there. It all came so close to never happening. This life came so close to never happening.
there aint nothin short of wisdom