Judy Chessin

“dog lives for you. A cat just lives with you.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“To be listened to is healing,”
― 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

“Stories are powerful, but gather too many of the words of others in your heart and they will drown out your own. Remember that”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars