A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.

I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.

What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

Spies and parents never sleep.

He used you, yeah. But what if you hadn't come? My family would have run again, but we would never have been free. We would never stop hunting us."
"I know." I thought of my frustration in Paris and I couldn't even imagine how sick of running Seth must be.
"That's why I had to come."
His eyebrow cocked upward. "And here I thought you came to see me.