"It felt like everything was rising up in……" — John Green

"It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window."

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My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story.… — Unknown Author
Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings. — Henry David Thoreau
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can;… — Aesop
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Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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