the cocoon like water, the labored trance and rhythmic breath of lap swimming had done their work, had unwound the restless feeling into nothingness.
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 clim...
I've been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I'm growing fins & scales.
If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it.
How lonely it is!To be drowning,in a placewhere everyone can swim.
If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time has come.
When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping?
Obviously, swimming is my strength, but I'm also good at fencing.
We Pisceans know how to swim without water
At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was before we were transferred. Dachau was ever so much nicer than Auschwitz. But then, it was in the Reich....
I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with them, forgive yourself. There may be hope for me...