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Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
“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!”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“when it’s all done, when life is almost over, what do you want to remember?”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― The Covenant of Water
― 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.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
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