“She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.”
“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...”
“I can't swim in a sea of mediocrity and pretend I'm not drowning.”
“I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present. ”
“She had been a pleasant surprise. From what her father had said I had expected an intellectual treat in a plain wrapper, but the package was attractive enough to take your attention off of the contents....she was not in any way hard to look at, and those details which had been first disclosed when she appeared in her swimming rig were completely satisfactory.”