It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.

She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight--at least as they normally experienced them....Some people lost their individuality in the water, but Riley always felt most herself. Water was supposed to symbolize renewal, she knew, but when Riley swam, pared down, alone, and unreachable--she felt a deeper sense of who she already was.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother