How to Breathe Underwater Quotes

“I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.”
― Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater

“I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.”
― Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater

“Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.”
― Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater

“Sometimes I freeze in front of the canvas, full of the knowledge that if I keep painting, sooner or later I will fail her”
― Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater

“But perhaps by then we will love ourselves less fiercely. Perhaps the edges of our mutual hate will have worn away, and we will have already said the things that need to be said.”
― Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater