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- “Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!” ― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water.
- “To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.” ― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water.
- “We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.” ― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water.
- “Secrecy lives in the same rooms as loneliness.” ― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water.
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May 9, 2023 · Oprah’s 101st book club pick delivers unshakable wisdom on creativity, family, and the transcendence of love. Set on the Malabar Coast of Southern India, The Covenant of Water is a sweeping saga spanning three generations and 77 years. From the first page to the last, Abraham Verghese immerses readers in the lush landscape of Kerala and the ...
Important Quotes Explained. 1. Look what can happen in this country, they’d say. A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for nineteen years, so poor she can’t afford a magazine, and then she gets a scholarship to college and wins a prize here and a prize there and ends up steering New York like her own private car.
- Sylvia Plath, Frances Monson McCullough, Lois Ames
- 1963
- “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.
- “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
- “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
- “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous. -- Narrator (Part Two: Chapter 11) Importance: When Digby sets out for India, leaving... (read more) This section contains 1,392 words. (approx. 4 pages at 400 words per page) View a FREE sample. More summaries and resources for teaching or studying Covenant of Water.
Important Quotes Explained. 2. When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and Black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only ...
