Alive Quote by Hugh Massingberd

“One man had been completely submerged in the boiling liquid which inundated the cabin, and in his removal to the deck, the skin had…

— Walter Johnson

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

— Christine Feehan

Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death…

— Michael Chabon

“Air was filtering out of my two collapsing lungs. Water rose, bubbling to enter, and I would have died of instantaneous pneumonia - something…

— Grace Paley

“If only he weren’t so infuriating and so solicitous, all at once. One or the other, she knew how to resist, but insolence and…

— Tessa Dare

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

— Mercedes Lackey

YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU…

— John Irving

“He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would not surrender…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“I was like a whirlpool of tragedy, and anybody who dared to get too close to me could get sucked in and drown. Like…

— Victoria Laurie

For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in…

— Stephen King

“No living creature should have to feel so exposed in death, washed up on the beach in mangled meat of bloody distortion.”

— Mehreen Ahmed

In the highly unlikely event he survived the drastic changes in the ratio of his volume to his surface area, by approximately the 8th…

— John Alejandro King