“...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.”

“He plunged beneath the surface and knew that these were Elyon's waters, and his lake had no bottom.”

“Things are never as they seem. A person. A Mark. A statement. They are always deeper than we perceive, like walking in the ocean and suddenly dipping under the surface because the bottom has disappeared beneath your feet. The water appears shallow until you are suddenly flailing around beneath the surface, desperately searching for stable ground once again.”

“Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.”

“When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!”

“And just then it occurred to him that he was going to die. It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden, evil-smelling emptiness and the odd thing was that the hyena slipped lightly along the edge of it.”