Grace R

“Apparently, Marx said that religion was the opium of the masses. It kept the oppressed from complaining or trying to change things.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“For twenty-eight years of Baby Mol’s life, the sun has never failed to come up, yet every morning she’s ecstatic at its return. To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water