Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater, and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid?

- Alex Flinn, Breathing Underwater

Escape is very difficult to negotiate, underwater.

- Darion D'Anjou, Genetika

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

- Robert Ballard

Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

- Rick Riordan

The half of her that is underwater would like to beunder a desk, the head of her that is underwaterwould like to be fully immersed.

- Patricia Lockwood, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well.

- Diane Ackerman

We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

- Katherine McIntyre, By the Sea

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

- David R. Ellis

Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

- Daniel H. Wilson

Leo leaned forward and met her soft lips. Their first underwater kiss created bubbles that floated lazily to the surface. Audrey ran her fingers through his coarse hair, and they lingered until his lungs were bursting.

- Jennifer Lane, Streamline