Cases Quote by Marisha Pessl

“At times we gasped for breath at an elevation beyond the albatross---at times became dizzy with the velocity of our descent into some watery…

— Edgar Allan Poe

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore,…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continually pounds; it stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at…

— Marcus Aurelius

Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which caused a…

— Stephen Harrigan

“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire surface of…

— Nicholas Monsarrat

She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint…

— Virginia Woolf

“The experts explained to me that when someone drowns in a flood, they do not float downstream like many people believe. They actually sink…

— Sarah A. Denzil

The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.

— Alexander MacLaren

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it,…

— Cecelia Ahern

“Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this damnable depression…

— Moonshine Noire

And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and…

— Anne Bronte

So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here…

— Barry S. Strauss