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“The baking wind tore at his hat and he held it by the brim with one hand. It relieved him to look at it,…

— Paulette Jiles

“The river, it's banks as yet untamed wandered languidly through thickets of rush and papyrus. Ibises waded in the shallows; in the deeps hippos…

— Terry Pratchett

“A good story, you'd have said, is like our river Drina: never calm, it doesn't trickle along, it is rough and broad, tributaries flow…

— Saša Stanišić

“When I come to the country I cease to view man as separate from the rest. As the river runs through many a clime,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were”

— Adam Hochschild

“If I've learned anything at all from the river it's to let jarring events come and go, that such tiny disruptions have no more…

— Steve Himmer

As rivers, when they overflow, drown those grounds, and ruin those husbandmen, which, whilst they flowed calmly betwixt their banks, they fertilized and enriched;…

— Robert Boyle

“Many have let their “river run dry.”

— Lee Vickers

“No one liked to think about the fact that the water in that river was infected with the blood and bile of persecuted women,…

— Paula Hawkins

“But drunkenly, or secretly, we swore, Disciples of that astigmatic saint, That we would never leave the island Until we had put down, in…

— Derek Walcott

Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?

— Kristin Cashore