Wendy

“I have been bent and broken but I hope into better shape.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“when it’s all done, when life is almost over, what do you want to remember?”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“The water she first stepped into minutes ago is long gone and yet it is here, past and present and future inexorably coupled, like time made incarnate. This is the covenant of water: that they’re all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Mariamma, sometimes when you are most afraid, when you feel most helpless, that is when God is pointing out a path for you.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water