Bottom Quote by MaryJanice Davidson

I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped…

— Alice Oswald

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

— Rider Strong

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

— Langston Hughes

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

— Sarah Dessen

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

— Lance Loud

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

— Anonymous

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were…

— Helena Christensen

To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as…

— Melanie McGrath

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.

— Marilyn Manson

If you are traveling along the path to success and you fall in a mud puddle,you decide how long you are going to roll…

— El Haji Nero

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere…

— Lorraine Bracco

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for…

— William Dampier