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“I make a choice, each and every day,” he said, his smile gone now. “I think on what I have. On what is before me. You. Breca. And they make my heart swell and my head giddy. There is no room left for any dwelling on the past.”
“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
“You can’t walk across a lake just because you change its name to “land.” Labels matter.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“Even before his brain digests these sights, his body—skin, nerve endings, lungs, heart—recognizes the geography of his birth. He never understood how much it mattered. Every bit of this lush landscape is his; its every atom contains him.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“Whatever is next for me, whatever the story of my life, the roots that must nourish it are here.”
― The Covenant of Water
― 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!”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
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