“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“Ammachi, when I come to the end of a book and I look up, just four days have passed. But in that time I’ve lived through three generations and learned more about the world and about myself than I do during a year in school. Ahab, Queequeg, Ophelia, and other characters die on the page so that we might live better lives.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
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