Quote by Frank Herbert

“What's your definition of sanity, Skipper?’ ‘The ability to swim,’ said Sparrow. Ramsey felt a cold shock, as though he had been immersed suddenly…

— Frank Herbert

“Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“You flounder through life, struggling desperately so you won't drown, even though you would float if you'd just relax.”

— Natsuki Takaya

“Insanity is like a river. It has one direction, downwards.”

— Jayden Hawke

“If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Don't blame the sparrow, it is your wickedness which has at last met with its reward. I only hope this may be a lesson…

— Yei Theodora Ozaki

“The stream of life is black and angry; how so many of us get across without drowning, I often wonder. The best way is…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“If I was drowning you would part the sea And risk your own life to rescue me . . .”

— Jamie McGuire

“Sparrow was my lovebird, and I couldn’t clip her wings anymore. I have bent her with the weight of my actions and lies for…

— L.J. Shen

“By the time I was done talking, I considered walking into the ocean and drowning myself,”

— Megan Erickson

“I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity.”

— Frances Hardinge

“What do you do when you're drowning but the only way to be free is to hold on to the one thing in all…

— Rachel Van Dyken