Mark Hall Speights

“Find a quiet space where you can be alone and focus on the dive ahead. Slow your heartbeat, establish a deep breathing rhythm, close your eyes or gaze out on to the ocean. Get yourself into a nice peaceful zone. Put away any thoughts circling around your mind concerning other aspects of your life, particularly areas where there is something negative going on. You are going diving; there is nothing you can do about anything that is happening in your surface existence while you are underwater.”
― Simon Pridmore, Scuba Confidential - An Insider's Guide to Becoming a Better Diver

“Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“A theory was forming in his head, like a musical composition he could hum from vague memories but not quite yet name or play.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Authority

“Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love. The pointless tasks, the myriad sacrifices, the endless small surrenders. We call these men the dancing monkeys.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl