Body Quote by Anonymous

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

— Mercedes Lackey

“river burial had a certain rustic poetry, but Ophion cared not at all about preserving the decency of the dead. The river deposited Psaltery…

— John Varley

“When Alice was younger, her father had fashioned a rough mask from evergreen needles and lake grass glued to a rotten shell of pine…

— Tracy Guzeman

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

— Thomas Fuller

“...I remembered the story Evan the cobbler had told me, about the two headstreams of Dwy Fawr and Dwy Fach which are said to…

— W.G. Sebald

“The day waned, and dusk was twined about the boles of the trees. At last the hobbits saw, rising dimly before them, a steep…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“was dog-tired when, a little before dawn, the boatswain sounded his pipe and the crew began to man the capstan-bars. I might have been…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“One man had been completely submerged in the boiling liquid which inundated the cabin, and in his removal to the deck, the skin had…

— Walter Johnson

“Water lapped as she sat forward. “Don’t play games with me, Roarke.” “Eve, it’s my fondest wish to do just that.”

— J.D. Robb

They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.

— Archibald MacLeish

Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.

— Rumi

“About midnight excited hails were heard from a boat about a couple of miles out at sea to the southeast of Sidmouth, and a…

— H.G. Wells