Something in the Water Quotes

“... She told me not to let it make me angry, not to let it break my heart, but to remember that we all lose the things we love the most and how we have to remember that we were lucky to have them at all in the first place.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“It's impossible to know if we were a good thing that broke somehow or a bad thing that eventually became exposed. But either way, if I could just go back now to the way we were, I would. I would, without a moment's hesitation. If I could just lie in his arms one last time, I could live with an illusion the rest of my life. If I could, I would.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“always read outside your comfort zone. That’s where stories come from. That’s where ideas come from.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“Sometimes you're the lamp post, and sometimes you're the dog.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“I guess that’s the way life works, isn’t it—nothing, and then everything at once.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“Have you ever wondered how long it takes to dig a grave? Wonder no longer. It takes an age. However long you think it takes, double that.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“Five A.M. is already the sort of hour that prompts you to question your life choices.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“But you don't sign up for certain things without knowing the rules, Erin. And if you've signed up for the game, then you can't complain when you lose. You got to lose with dignity is all; a good sportsman always lets people lose with dignity.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, Le Diable et le Bon Dieu”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“But that's life, isn't it? Sometimes you're the dog; sometimes you're the lamppost.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“I’m beginning to realize that being rich doesn’t really mean having money to buy nice things; it means having money to avoid the rules.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“But in the words of Murakami, the master of the hard slog: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“I’m almost certain we left no trace, but that’s the thing about slipups, isn’t it, you don’t know you’ve made one?”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“The horizon is always approximately three miles away from you when viewed at sea level.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“Then, as she twisted to the right, she revealed her talking partner. I literally broke step, my body deciding before my brain that my presence would not be needed in their interaction. Carol was gorgeous. A tall, confident, amazon of a woman. The lines of her gold lamay dress skimming every curve of her body. She was clearly not wearing underwear. She looked like a glossy magazine perfume ad. And this man was her magazine equal. He was perfect. Tall. Substantial. He looked muscular without giving the impression that he worked out. Maybe he was a rower. Or it could be tennis. Maybe he chopped down trees. Yes, he'd be very good at chopping trees down. I remember feeling an unnaturally strong desire to watch him do that.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“I notice my sudden jump in logic. From making a mistake to actively committing a crime. Just like that. I wonder if that's how it starts with a lot of criminals...”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“How quickly what is good can become not good enough through comparison. Maybe best never to see it.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“They say you know when you’re really getting old because everyone around you starts to look impossibly young.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“Mistakes come down to three things: (1) lack of time, (2) lack of initiative, (3) lack of care. I”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“For our situation now, I have adapted. I’ve become a far different person. I see her all around me reflected in the glass. Solid. Implacable. Or at least she is visibly. Inside is different. Inside there is only breath and silence. Because I’m scared. Plain and simple, sharks-in-the-water scared.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“That’s strange, isn’t it? When you think you know what a good thing is and then you suddenly realize that there is a whole other level beyond what you knew even existed? Scary, in a way. How quickly what is good can become not good enough through comparison. Maybe best never to see it.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“Scary, in a way. How quickly what is good can become not good enough through comparison.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“always read outside your comfort zone.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“fear is corrosive.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“I’m beginning to realize that being rich doesn’t really mean having money to buy nice things; it means having money to avoid the rules. The rules are there for the other people, the people without the money, the ones who drive you about in your cars, fly your planes, cook your food. Rules can be bypassed with money or even just the mystique surrounding money. Flights can vanish, people can find people, people can live or die without the hassle of police or doctors or paperwork. If, and only if, you have the money to make things run smoothly for yourself.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“We human beings are amazing in our capacity for adaptation, aren’t we? Like plants, we grow to fit our pots. But more than that, sometimes, we can choose our own pots; some of us get that opportunity. I guess it really depends on how far you’re willing to go, doesn’t it?”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“You can tell a champagne’s quality by the size of the bubbles, did you know that? The smaller the bubbles, the more there are available to release the aroma and flavor. The carbon dioxide bubbles pick up and carry the flavor molecules; the more there are, the more refreshing and subtle the flavors will feel to your palate.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“Why do desert islands always have palm trees? Because coconuts float. They float across the ocean, they float alone for thousands of miles, until they beach and plant themselves in the hot sand. Their roots sink deep, right down into the earth until they hit the rock-filtered fresh water far under the ground. Like swimmers finally making it to shore.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

“But one thought does break through.
It has the echo of something familiar.
The thought is: I don’t need to come back to this elevator at all, do I? I don’t need to ever come back to this hotel. I could just leave. I could set up this bank account and leave. Leave my life. What if I just disappeared? Just left Mark in a hotel room in Geneva. I could slip off now, bag in hand, and melt away. Never even go to the bank. No one would really miss me, really, would they? Would they? Life goes on. Life always just goes on. I’m sure I’d make a good life for myself, somewhere. They never find me——Mark, our friends, the plane people, the police. They’d never find me or the money, or our unborn child.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water