The Drowning Kind Quotes

“Grief is a monster.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“For everyone out there who has the good sense to be a little afraid when swimming in deep, dark water. You tell yourself there’s nothing down there, but there is. There always is.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“In the water, dark and deep where she waits, fast asleep All alone, pale and cold, don’t wake her up, or she’ll catch hold Her soothing voice, so soft and low is the last thing you’ll ever know Four simple words whispered in your ear, a gentle wind only you can hear: Come swimming with me”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“What’s the difference, I wondered, between a ghost and a memory?”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“There’s nothing in that water except what we bring in with us.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“How will we know if it’s changing us?” I asked. “Maybe we won’t. The biggest changes happen so slowly you hardly notice them.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“I watched in total disbelief as my aunt began to expertly roll a joint. “What are you doing?” “Baking a pie, Jax. What does it look like I’m doing?”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“Lexie and I made little paper boats like that and sent them down the canal that flowed to the stream. She’d write messages inside them, hoping they would get carried far away, be picked up by a stranger who would read: I’m being held prisoner, send help, please! This is a note from the other side of the world. Everything is upside down here.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“May 13 Deduction. Reduction. Redaction. How much has been redacted from the carefully curated version of our story?”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“She was tough enough to chop a hole in the ice and swim in January, so it was hard to think of her being trapped by her own mind.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“The wind blew, rippling the water, making everything waver as if none of it were real.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“But what truth would that be? There were so many to choose from.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“Because that’s what our family does. Pretends that if we don’t talk about a thing, it didn’t happen. As if we could shape the truth with our stories, or lack thereof.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“I wasn’t a big believer in closure. In my experience, both in my life and working with my clients, solid resolutions to conflicts, problems, or grief were elusive. I believed it was more beneficial to recognize emotions and learn to deal with them appropriately; to find ways to live with the loss rather than tie everything up with a neat little bow and pronounce you’ve had closure.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“We don’t know the terrible things that are coming our way,” she said as she looked down at the cut crystal, her eyes teary. “We just see the shiny surface, our own beautiful selves reflected in it. Not the monster lurking beneath.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“It’s odd, really. Trying to impose order on nature. The garden is a living, breathing thing; sometimes I’m quite sure it’s got a mind of its own.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“Lexie didn’t like the way alcohol slowed down her thinking, said it was like putting on a thick, fuzzy bear suit that was hot and uncomfortable and made the world seem muffled. She claimed that marijuana leveled her out, helped slow her racing thoughts so the rest of her could catch up.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind

“Силата на любовта се разпалва най - добре с вино, книжарница и малко поезия”
― Дженифър Макмеън, The Drowning Kind