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Judy Chessin
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“dog lives for you. A cat just lives with you.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“Philipose quotes Gandhi: “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of food.”
― The Covenant of Water
― 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.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“God smiles through the cracks in broken things.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“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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