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“Since we are sinking, let us sink. We can die but once.”

— Alexander Dumas

“This time as we ascend, I watch the world sinking below us. I watch the way the city fades into sand that gets washed…

— Lauren DeStefano

“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out…

— John Updike

“… in the sea of love, where everyone would love to drown. But now it’s gone; they say it doesn’t matter anymore.…”

— Lauren Kate

“The Drowned Cities hadn’t always been broken. People broke it. First they called people traitors and said they didn’t belong. Said these people were…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“there have been times when I have thought, if the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The sea will do just fine without us. We cannot survive without the sea.”

— Morten A. Strøksnes

“You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there is no ship for you, there is no road. As…

— C.P. Cavafy

“Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in…

— Nathan Reese Maher

“You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.”

— Kelli Jae Baeli

“Those who want to sink will surely seek and find an impending shipwreck. - On Human Stupidity.”

— Lamine Pearlheart