Undertow Quotes

“You’ll be okay, Eila. You are stronger than you think,” he said, a tad too serious. I nodded drunkenly. “I am still worried though, about a concussion. You look a bit unstable.” I bet I did.”
― K.R. Conway, Undertow

“...'undertow'. It describes (...) how underneath our own everyday lives - the shopping and squabbles and weeding and trips to the vet - there's a sense of being dragged slowly off, not against our will but regardless of it. And fighting the undertow, as children are quick to learn, is not usually the best way of getting back to the beach. Floating along with it, on the other hand, can be fatal.

It's really the struggle, the argument with oneself, that interests...”
― Robert Dessaix, Picador new writing

“Life's a bitch and her stripper name is Karma."
- quote from Diane Madden Ferguson's UNDERTOW”
― Diane Madden Ferguson, Undertow: A U.S. Navy Veteran's Journey Through Military Sexual Trauma

“Agua brava.
Furious water, an undertow that could lift you up and wash you away. That would never leave you quite in the same place it found you. That returned you slightly — but irrevocably— different. So that at night when you lay in your dry bed, you still felt the memory of that wave moving inside you.”
― Adriana Herrera

“The drag of magic reminds me of the undertow on a beach: a strip of calm, dark water that seems innocuous but, once it has you, pulls you far from land.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“... my dreams were an undertow that dragged me down, down, down until I couldn't escape them.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury