“Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you
don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some
people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

Source: Drowning Instinct

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American writer 1957

Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer

Source: Drowning Instinct

“Acquiring carnal knowledge is like swimming in the sea … The sea's so beautiful to look at, so wonderful to swim in, but you must never bathe unless it's safe. People so often drown in the sea and some coasts are so very dangerous, … like the Coast of Gower.”

Susan Howatch book The Wheel of Fortune

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

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“Drowning people
Sometimes die
Fighting their rescuers.”

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) American science fiction writer

“When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

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“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”

Edwidge Danticat book Breath, Eyes, Memory

Writings
Source: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)

“It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

“It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”

Stephen King book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ

Source: The Last Temptation of Christ

“It was a mite that held itself most dear,
So small I could have drowned it with a tear.”

Karl Shapiro (1913–2000) Poet, essayist

"Interludes" III, in From Darkness To Light : A Confession of Faith in the form of an Anthology (1956) edited by Victor Gollancz
Context: Then in my heart a fear
Cried out, "A life — why, beautiful, why dead!" It was a mite that held itself most dear,
So small I could have drowned it with a tear.

“Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you
don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some
people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.”

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