Child Quote by David Paul Kirkpatrick

“Nothing compared to the freedom of floating in his arms. He would say the hand of God was holding them up, delivering them. She…

— Pam Godwin

“She smelled of flowers and rain. A meadow beneath a storm. It was intoxicating, and before he could even ponder why he would think…

— Micah Persell

“She drew back from his embrace so she could look into his eyes, her own swimming with tears. The uncertainty in her face nearly…

— Sarah Mayberry

“He was up to his neck in it. He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story's essence had…

— Haruki Murakami

“He swam and he wept.”

— Andrea Camilleri

“Sometimes I wish I could describe how wonderful I feel in those few seconds from the time he spreads his arms above his head,…

— Yōko Ogawa

“I walked until the water lapped against my chest, and then I kept walking until it kissed the underside of my jaw. I was…

— Rick Yancey

“There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on,…

— Kermit Roosevelt III

“His words were so soft that the wind nearly destroyed them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story’s essence had permeated every part of him, to the walls…

— Haruki Murakami

“She was a wild ocean. And he had always seen people giving up while trying to swim in her and swim back to the…

— Akshay Vasu

“I wondered then: what was it that started a person sinking? Was that long fall in him (or her) from the start, in us…

— James Sallis