Able Quote by Cathie Pelletier

“To expand his lung capacity, he ran to the public pool at Redondo Beach, dove to the bottom, grabbed the drain plug, and just…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“He managed the ten feet to the water a few inches at a time. He grabbed the gunnel amidships and lifted with his legs;…

— Antonio Dias

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Panning his sunglasses across Quincy, Jamie, and LB, he spun his finger in small circles. He spoke into the mike curled at his lips.…

— David L. Robbins

“They found him late that night. He was floating head-down in the benjo, the long, deep trench of rain-churned shit that served as the…

— Richard Flanagan

He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop…

— Paul Auster

Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at such things, then changed, right there in the Thames, from dog-paddling wolf to large man treading…

— Gail Carriger

Another bottle just to get a couple swallows, headed towards the bottom couldn't get off.. he didn't even think he had a problem

— James Merrow

“Has the water died?’ asks Will. He is only nine. It is painful for him to see this. He understands that there is something…

— Robert Macfarlane

He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might…

— Jonathan Stroud

Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a…

— Anonymous

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

— Anonymous