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“Mariamma, sometimes when you are most afraid, when you feel most helpless, that is when God is pointing out a path for you.”
― Abraham Verghese, 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.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“The chaos and hurt in God’s world are unfathomable mysteries, yet the Bible shows her that there is order beneath. As her father would say, “Faith is to know the pattern is there, even though none is visible.”
― 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