„You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.“

— Paulo Coelho
„Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,things standing shall fall,but the moving ever shall stay.“
— Basava
„You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.“
— Margaret Atwood