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“You don't need an ocean to feel like you're drowning. You feel it, between your chest and your throat, the weight of it stretching you outside your self, like a dead fish on the shore.”
“He danced across my heart like a pirate,Constantly discovering my secrets,Turning over every hidden treasure,Drowning me in his fantasy.”
“I'm drowning and you're stealing every breath.”
“Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.”
“Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.”
“The people's need to share has turned into a massive disease. It has taken them to the most private meaningless part of their lives. In such circumstance, values become redefined and what has been ...”
“If misery were water, he thinks as he climbs into his car and turns the key, I could just drown or let it wash me away entirely.”
“Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.”
“You don't drown because you can't breathe. You drown because you try to breathe what is not breathable.”
“What was his place? he wondered. Where was his world? He had sometimes stood on the riverbank and told himself: Deep down in the cold water is your world; a rock lashed to your feet is your clothin...”
“For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.”
“I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.”
“She stooped for a stone and dropped it down.'Fancy being where that is now,' she said, peering into the blackness; 'fancy going round and round like a mouse in a pail, clutching at the slimy sides,...”
“When she was eighteen years old she had almost drowned in the Kennebec River, not because of the pummeling current, but because she couldn't come up with a casual phrase with which to call for resc...”
“Or perhaps it is because it is so NECESSARY for you to win. It is like a drowning man catching at a straw. You yourself will agree that, unless he were drowning he would not mistake a straw for the...”
“He was swimming in a sea of other peoples expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
“Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his hea...”
“When the rain is on my lipsAnd I shiver from the coldThinking about lifeIts ups and downsAnd being a melancholicI take a noteOf the nature's crying its tearsMaking the day seem gray And unexcited B...”
“The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season.”
“He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.”
