“Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.”
“Just keep swimming.”
“It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.”
“... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
“How strange it must be, thought Tortoise looking out to sea, to have no edge to one's world. We have a beach; we know the shape of our island and just how far we can go. But Turtle can swim away in any direction and keep going -- her world has no limits, no ending. She can, if she chooses, swim on forever and ever and ever.”
“Last time we went swimming, the sea stood up and hugged you as though you were responsible for keeping it blue.”