“You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.”

“She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.”

“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”

“When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.”

“You try to save a drowning man without prior authorization.”

“When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.”

“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”

“You might not, not think so now,
But just you wait and see — someone will come to help you.”

“You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.”

“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”