Janet Richards

“I have been bent and broken but I hope into better shape.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“And he looked at her, full of gratitude and a sudden, wild conjecture: he had been real for her, she had watched him, and prayed for him during all those years when she, for him had been nothing but a shadow. And she was praying for him still; he would have her prayers to aid him all his life long--he saw this, now, in her face. She said nothing, and she did not smile, only looked at him with her grave kindness, now a little questioning, a little shy.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain