Quotes About Submersion

Going under the water and staying under the water for periods of time gives me claustrophobia.

It was a beautiful stretch of water, either to a fisherman or a photographer, although each would have focused his equipment on a different point. It was a barely submerged waterfall. The reef of rock was about two feet under the water, so the whole river rose into one wave, shook itself into spray, then fell back on itself and turned blue. After it recovered from the shock, it came back to see how it had fallen.

It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?

I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.

Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness of eyes, and the harpsichord strings behind the kneecaps.

I felt memories rising to the surface like a corpse coming up from dark water.

The swimmer unknowingly skims over a whole buried universe which would frighten him if he looked at it with undersea goggles.

Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.