“She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.”
“My mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.”
“How could you teach someone to survive? You pointed them in the right direction and hoped they'd swim, not sink. Waving, not drowning. There are more important things in life than individual happiness. It was an easy trap to fall into, mistaking a lack of self-direction for an expression of love.”
“He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.”
“It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.”
“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”