“A fish cannot be aware of the ocean, before jumping up out of water.”
“Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That's what love's like.”
“It is hard for fish to be aware of water. It is hard for us to notice something that's an ingrained pattern shaping our habitual thought.”
“If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.”
“We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up under us and we floated to where it met the sea and walked out of the water like creatures in an act of evolution.”
“It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.”