Mary

“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

“To be listened to is healing,”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Like all mothers, I have long since mastered the art of nursing joy at one breast and grief at the other.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“But who knows, really, how many days might be left for a woman such as myself, and what yet I might do when surrounded by so much beauty and love?”
― Lisa See, Lady Tan's Circle of Women