Marjorie

“We complain and complain in the villages, and then take us out and it's all we can talk about."
"Aren't people that way everywhere:" Amina said. "I mean, when they lose something?”
― Nell Freudenberger, The Newlyweds

“As Philipose recalls this conversation of almost a decade ago, he’s humbled to think that Joppan had been right: only a few years later, the Party won the majority of the seats in Kerala and formed the first democratically elected Communist government anywhere in the world.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“What she thought was her life is all maya, all illusion, but it is one shared illusion. And what else can she do but go on.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“in my day, molay, a girl couldn’t dream like that. But you, my namesake, you can be a doctor, or lawyer, or journalist—anything you imagine. We lit that lamp to light your path.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water