Pulled Beneath Quotes

“Don’t judge me just because I needed a break. We can’t all be Saints…”
― Marni Mann, Pulled Beneath

“There was a time in my life⎯not too long ago⎯when I was trapped. Pulled beneath the waves, into the hole I had climbed into. It was a dark, damaging place. That ink reminds me of how I never want to visit there again.”
― Marni Mann, Pulled Beneath

“I was the mess who didn’t know how to get her head back on straight after her whole life had been turned upside-down.”
― Marni Mann, Pulled Beneath

“I had witnessed his pain in motion; the way he had stroked over the sea fueled by something so similar to what fueled me. The agony he couldn’t hide from his caramel-colored eyes. I was drawn to whatever was broken in him, probably in the same way that he was drawn to what was broken in me.”
― Marni Mann, Pulled Beneath

“The salt stung my eyes. Knowing the freedom that was waiting for me in the water,
I hadn’t taken the time to grab my goggles or a cap. Freedom from my thoughts, moments that weren’t disrupted by the snapshots of my parents… their blood pooled on the floor…their lifeless bodies heaped in the positions they’d fallen in. With each exhale, their blood seemed to slowly evaporate, their bodies began to lift, their skin turned pink. Time reversed. With this pause came an increased heart rate, burning muscles. I purged my emotions, emptied them into the ocean. In a place where I felt—and could be—truly weightless.”
― Marni Mann, Pulled Beneath