Academic Quote by L.S

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Well, I tried drowning, but that didn't work; somehow the urge to life, mere physical life, is damn strong, and I felt that I…

— Sylvia Plath

“If she let herself, she’d drown in a world of pain”

— Julia Hoban

“A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.”

— Julie Schumacher

“…Her desire was close to that of the person who drowns himself; he does not necessarily covet death so much as what comes after…

— Yukio Mishima

“For her, absolute control over herself—her body, her emotions—was a matter of survival, an impossible burden she'd had to carry alone for far too…

— Kit Rocha

“when she was finally done, she was close to tears and she hated herself more. Dragging oxygen into her sob-clogged throat, she turned to…

— Marian Tee

“A surge of emotion washed over him, took him under. He was helpless against it, flailing, gasping for air. Drowning in her.”

— Hanna Martine

“As her life choked away beneath the tightness , in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction.”

— Patricia Gibney

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“She comes to life with a soft exhausted sound, like someone saved from drowning.”

— James Salter

“Finally she lets herself think about how it feels: to be so frightened that you almost can't breathe to speed so fast and be…

— Ali Smith