Amardip

“Why was it one had to leave something, or have it taken away, to really appreciate it?”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“She resists the reality of life: a married woman gives up her childhood home forever, and a widow’s fate is to remain in the home she married into.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“How is a dream that involves two people to be sustained by one?”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Men like to think that women forget the pain upon seeing the blessed baby. No. A woman forgives the child, and she might even forgive the father. But she never forgets.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water