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“She sits in a tub full to the brim, her chin submerged, her knees bent and revealed. She feels the water drift as her…

— B. E. Hewson

“she was disquietingly fluid—fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust, created already…

— James Baldwin

“She studied fluidity.”

— Colum McCann

“IN THE LOBBY of her building, people fresh out of the wind were huffing and puffing like swimmers just crawled up on shore. She”

— Alice McDermott

“She looked out across the water and allowed the feeling of longing to wash over her, spill into the crevices of her soul, and…

— Elizabeth Fama

“She had the air of someone clinging to a wall of soap.”

— Dennis Lehane

“If life was like a body of water, she had asked that she be allowed to walk again in its shallows; instead she had…

— Dorothy Gilman

“The waters of her emotions ran deep, and he was only privy to the splashes on the surface.”

— Travis Luedke

“Her breathing was shallow, a seashore slowly being covered with water.”

— David Levithan

“When I opened the door to her I felt like a child who believes itself lost on a swarming street and suddenly sees that…

— Martin Amis

“It transformed and sharpened everything she saw, smelled, felt. She could hear the ping of water moving through the pipes and smell metal in…

— Dennis Lehane

“An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger…

— Alan Brennert