Character Quote by Sue Ellen Campbell

“I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.”

— Jessi Kirby

“Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water. I”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Water is water.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Make your characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Mother is water.”

— Suzy Kassem

“Water is clourless like life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I want my writing to be as smooth as drinking a glass of water—pool water, with piss in it.”

— Jarod Kintz

“(And) you move as it all your life you have lived by water.”

— Tapiwa Mugabe

“If there is one lesson to be learned from this book, it is that there is never a dull moment in the world of…

— Lynne Truss

“In my book, water was only good for one thing...when I remember what that is, I'll let you know.”

— Anonymous

“My whole life seemed to spill out into the river, swirling away from me, everything I had ever been or ever wanted to be.”

— Tim O'Brien

Punctuation saves lives.

— Alla