Judy Chessin

“Philipose quotes Gandhi: “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of food.”
― Abraham Verghese, 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.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“God smiles through the cracks in broken things.”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“The whisky burns. How strange to try to drown pain with fire.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water