“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
As quoted in Publishing Tips : Weekly Strategies for the Independent Writer (2008) by Linda A. Lavid, p. 57.
“Such a darling child, they would say, and pat her head. And Miriam would answer in her heart: you made my father a slave. You want us all dead. You are the river, you and all of Egypt. You are the river and as long as we stay beside you we are in danger of drowning.”
— Orson Scott Card, book Stone Tables
Stone Tables (1997)
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