“All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.”

“I caught Bast’s arm when she was a few steps from the bank.
“Stay away from the water.”
She frowned. “Carter, I’m a cat. I’m not going for a swim. But if you want to summon a river goddess, you really need to do it at the riverbank.”

“I didn't set fire to the building."
"No, but you did pull it into the river."
"That put the fire out!”

“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”

“Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.”

“I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.”

“Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.”

“I was born near the Po and it is the only respectable river in all Italy. To be respectable, a river must flow through a plain because water was created to stay horizontal and only when it is perfectly horizontal does it preserve its natural dignity. Niagara falls is an embarrassing phenomenon, like a man who walks on his hands.”

“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”

“Life in us is like the water in a river.”