It's Only Drowning Quotes

“To love life in a world full of tragedy doesn’t make you complicit. It makes you complete.”
― David Litt, It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground

“While it had taken a few decades, at last I had realized: milestones tell you where you are, not who you are.”
― David Litt, It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground

“As someone who prefers his internal organs to remain on the inside, however, I found it harder to toe the party line. The odds of being bitten by a shark are almost zero. But for a few unlucky people, the crucial part of that sentence is "almost." In much the way my grandfather once ate several salmon-flavored dog biscuits thinking they were gourmet crackers, sharks occasionally--but very memorably--confuse people for seals. Surfers, with seal-shaped boards and dark wetsuits, are particularly susceptible to such mixups.”
― David Litt, It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground

“Now, though, our preferences were more than preferences. They were identifiers. Not just declaring what we liked, but who we were.”
― David Litt, It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground