Patrick Ness Quotes

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

Would I drown saving him?

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

I once saved someone from drowning.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He'd run out of diapers. He'd run out of medicine. His baby was sick. The guy's saying, 'Help me! Take my baby.' What could I do? That's the definition of helpless.

We made sure nobody died on the show. We made sure nobody ever drowned on 'Baywatch.'

If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

Let me put it this way, if you were drowning, you wouldn't really be in a place to lend a hand as far as being rescued. You'd be at the mercy of the lifeguard. Once pulled out, you may be a little out of it, not sure where you are, but safe nonetheless.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

God, if You don't help me, I'm going to die.

pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning

Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.

There you are," he said when she bobbed up. "I was getting worried." "What are you doing?" "Waiting till you're ready to drown." He smiled and eased back down on the seat. "And then I'm going to save your life. Dan did it for Phoebe and I'm going to do it for you." "Dan didn't try to murder her first!" she screamed. "I go the extra mile.

The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

There is more than one good way to drown.

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?