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Water Quotes by Lauren Oliver
- Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.
- I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that…
- Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under…
- Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is…
- Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled…
- But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge…
- That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty,…
- I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.
- Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.
More Water Quotes
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when… — Chinua Achebe
- Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot… — Erykah Badu
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters… — James A. Baldwin
- I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as… — Tallulah Bankhead
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams