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

Source: Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

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American literary critic 1920–1990

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Visions

“She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.”

Edna O'Brien (1930) Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short story writer

Source: Saints and Sinners

“Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic”

Guillermo del Toro book The Night Eternal

Source: The Night Eternal

“When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone.. Everyone said she was a fraud, that she was just making it up.. I’d really like to know why the hell a person would make up a thing like that.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

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

Carsten Jensen (1952) Danish author and political columnist

Source: We, the Drowned

“I was talking to a woman last night. I said, “I’m not like other people.” She started to giggle. Then I raised my voice and said evenly, “That’s one blessing God gave writers — they’re not like other people!””

Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985) Novelist

1970s-, The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)

“Once, after we had recalled to each other an enchanted summer evening, I said, "We loved each other," and she answered, "I remember."”

Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist

Light (1919), Ch. XIX - Ghosts

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

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

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

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: New Spring

“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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

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

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