Marjorie

“Oh often have I washed and dressed And what’s to show for all my pain? Let me lie abed and rest: Ten thousand times I’ve done my best And all’s to do again. A. E. Housman
XI, Last Poems”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“Such precious, precious water, Lord, water from our own well; this water that is our covenant with You, with this soil, with the life You granted us. We are born and baptized in this water, we grow full of pride, we sin, we are broken, we suffer, but with water we are cleansed of our transgressions, we are forgiven, and we are born again, day after day till the end of our days. Her mat takes her weight kindly, eases”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“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

“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