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“Don't forget,' he says, and Abu Sayeed looks up while he translates, holding the words back a little, 'stories ease the pain of living, not dying. People always think dying is going to hurt. But it does not. It's living that hurts us.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“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
“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
“God smiles through the cracks in broken things.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“To be listened to is healing,”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
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