“Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand…”

“Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.”

“I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.”

“Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!"
Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake."
Ayame: "As long as we spend time together."
Yuki: "On second thought, go drown yourself.”

“No man has known perfect felicity,
Until his otherness is drowned in unity”

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”

“Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.”

“And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms.”

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”

“The world is terrible," said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them.”