{"quotes":[{"text":"It is because of this sea between us. The earth has never, up to now, separated us. But, ever since yesterday, there has been something in this nonetheless real, perfectly Atlantic, salty, slightly rough sea that has cast a spell on me. And every time I think about Promethea, I see her crossing this great expanse by boat and soon, alas, a storm comes up, my memory clouds over, in a flash there are shipwrecks, I cannot even cry out, my mouth is full of saltwater sobs. I am flooded with vague, deceptive recollections, I am drowning in my imagination in tears borrowed from the most familiar tragedies, I wish I had never read certain books whose poison is working in me. Has this Friday, perhaps, thrown a spell on me? But spells only work if you catch them. I have caught the Tragic illness. If only Promethea would make me some tea I know I would find some relief. But that is exactly what is impossible. And so, today, I am sinning. I am sinking beneath reality. I am weighted down with literature. That is my fate. Yet I had the presence of mind to start this parenthesis, the only healthy moment in these damp, feverish hours. All this to try to come back to the surface of our book... Phone me quickly, Promethea, get me out of this parenthesis fast!).","author":"Hélène Cixous","tags":["books","despair","drowning","imagination","parenthesis","sea","spell"],"id":7189,"author_id":"H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne+Cixous"},{"text":"She imagined herself drowning along the tides of Sumendu Lake, down own into the depths of solemn solitude, splashing into the serenity of forever silence.","author":"Ashmita Acharya","tags":["despair","drowning","pain","painful","sadness","silence","solitude","sorrow"],"id":12864,"author_id":"Ashmita+Acharya"},{"text":"Believe that you are someone worth saving.","author":"Slade Combs","tags":["afterlife","angels","believe","choices","dark","death","demons","drowning","evil","friendship","ghosts","good","heaven","hell","inspirational","life","light","purpose-of-life","save","spirits","the-choice","worth"],"id":14387,"author_id":"Slade+Combs"},{"text":"I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. 'I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["alice-in-wonderland","crying","drowning","ironic-death","irony","tears","water","wonderland"],"id":31512,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there.","author":"Julia Gregson","tags":["drowning","east-of-the-sun","feeling","feet","julia-gregson","panic","scared","strange","swimming"],"id":32938,"author_id":"Julia+Gregson"},{"text":"SINK OR SWIM ALERTFolks with low self-esteem will push you under to save their drowning egosKamil Ali.","author":"Kamil Ali","tags":["alert","ali","dawn","drowning","esteem","kamil","kamilthe","self","spawn"],"id":35663,"author_id":"Kamil+Ali"},{"text":"How great inexperience and innocence is. On the authority of their parents they go to a place where they could meet their death; for the Zirder in flood is very dangerous and, given the ignorance of the children, can be incalculably dangerous. But they know nothing of death. Even if they speak its name, they do not know its essence and their aspiring life has no feeling for annihilation. If they were on the brink of death themselves, they would not know it and they would die before they found it out.","author":"Adalbert Stifter","tags":["children","death","drowning","innocence"],"id":43827,"author_id":"Adalbert+Stifter"},{"text":"Why d’you think she did it?”I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know.“A broken heart,” I suggested.“Do people suffer so much?”“For love? Oh, I imagine so.”“To drown herself?”“Why does that astonish you? Dido threw herself on the flames.”“In legend.”“And real life’s different?” I asked.","author":"Ronald Frame","tags":["broken-heart","drowning","real-life"],"id":45439,"author_id":"Ronald+Frame"},{"text":"She stooped for a stone and dropped it down.'Fancy being where that is now,' she said, peering into the blackness; 'fancy going round and round like a mouse in a pail, clutching at the slimy sides, with the water filling your mouth, and looking up to the little patch of sky above.''You had better come in,' said Benson, very quietly. 'You are developing a taste for the morbid and horrible.' ('The Well').","author":"W.W. Jacobs","tags":["drowning","horror","well"],"id":54006,"author_id":"W.W.+Jacobs"},{"text":"I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.","author":"Jessi Kirby","tags":["drowning","drowning-one-s-sorrows","emotions","moonglass","water"],"id":62315,"author_id":"Jessi+Kirby"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":72,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}