Quote by Jean Rhys

“Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at…

— Ray Bradbury

“Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

— Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451

“I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I…

— Amy Harmon

“My whole life seemed to spill out into the river, swirling away from me, everything I had ever been or ever wanted to be.”

— Tim O'Brien

“I never saved anything for the swim back.”

— Andrew Niccol

“Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in a new…

— Cate Tiernan

“I was a fallow field ruined by brackish flood, but I would choose the wave over the wind, I would swamp your world with…

— Ron Slate

“We swam deep in the waves, a wild chase .. Stained with memories and pain. Who knew a gulf would lay between? Who knew…

— honeste

“To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life-- like all…

— Cheryl Strayed

“I felt trapped in my own body, once again in a labyrinth that I didn’t know the way out of. But that labyrinth was…

— Ali Blythe

“The river and everything I remembered about it became a possession to me, a personal, private possession, as nothing else in my life ever…

— James Dickey

“He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in the god damn…

— J.D. Salinger