“ You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes. Ilsa J. Bick
“ As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they w… Ilsa J. Bick
“ Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, youdon’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and somepeople… Ilsa J. Bick
“ You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it. Ilsa J. Bick
“ ...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy. Ilsa J. Bick
“ There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity.Yet many others search their entire lives fo… Ilsa J. Bick
“ They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241) Ilsa J. Bick
