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“To be listened to is healing,”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“You can’t walk across a lake just because you change its name to “land.” Labels matter.”
― 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 sweetness of life is sure in only two things: love and sugar. If you don’t get enough of the first, have more of the second!”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water