{"quotes":[{"text":"A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["act","action","big-dreams","dream-big","fish","fishes","food-for-thought","gill","gills","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","survive","swim","swimming"],"id":7906,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"She dove, plunging fully beneath the surface and came up again in tears. Rivulets ran from her face, and the sun ignited them each, transforming them, even amid her sorrow, into gilded runnels set with a diamond shine.","author":"A.S. Peterson","tags":["beauty","beauty-in-sorrow","beauty-in-suffering","grief","sorrow","swimming","tears"],"id":11825,"author_id":"A.S.+Peterson"},{"text":"She'd started swimming early in the morning, when the kids were asleep, when she thought he was asleep. She didn't know her absence woke him, that the shift in the bed was an earthquake. When she climbed back in, she smelled like salt and seaweed. Sometimes her hair would still be knotted on top of her head. She tried to keep it dry. She didn't want him to know. The problem with marrying the mermaid girl from the carnival was knowing that one day she'd swim away.","author":"Erika Swyler","tags":["absence","escape","mermaids","relationships","secret","swimming"],"id":20941,"author_id":"Erika+Swyler"},{"text":"She loves swimming,” said Ellen, who I knew had been a competitive swimmer in college. Ellen looked in the rearview mirror at Kara.“Don’t you Kara?” asked Ellen.There was no response.\t“I didn’t start until I was three,” said Ellen. “She’s got a two year start on me.","author":"Daniel Amory","tags":["chicago","summer","swimming"],"id":21155,"author_id":"Daniel+Amory"},{"text":"It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.","author":"Michael Phelps","tags":["dream","swimming","changing "],"id":28515,"author_id":"Michael+Phelps"},{"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":"People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["adventure","calm","calm-waters","excel","excellence","excellent","food-for-thought","h20","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","risk","risk-taking","swim","swimmers","swimming","trouble","trouble-waters","troubled-waters","venture","water","waters"],"id":45415,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Perhaps swimming was dancing under the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to swim under upraised logs past schools of sunfish and bluegills, to swim through reed beds past wriggling water snakes and miniature turtles, to swim in small lakes, big lakes, Lake Michigan, to swim in small farm ponds, creeks, rivers, giant rivers where one was swept along easefully by the current, to swim naked alone at night when you were nineteen and so alone you felt like you were choking every waking moment, having left home for reasons more hormonal than rational; reasons having to do with the abstraction of the future and one's questionable place in the world of the future, an absurdity not the less harsh for being so widespread.","author":"Jim Harrison","tags":["philosophy","swimming"],"id":47686,"author_id":"Jim+Harrison"},{"text":"Leo leaned forward and met her soft lips. Their first underwater kiss created bubbles that floated lazily to the surface. Audrey ran her fingers through his coarse hair, and they lingered until his lungs were bursting.","author":"Jennifer Lane","tags":["cover","kiss","na","swimming","underwater"],"id":59646,"author_id":"Jennifer+Lane"},{"text":"Our wings serve as flippers that carry us across the ocean; not in the sky!Why, us penguins have so much fun time in the water, we don't even want to fly!","author":"Jasmine Jean","tags":["bird","flying","life","nature","penguin","season","swimming","winter"],"id":59726,"author_id":"Jasmine+Jean"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":78,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}