Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 33 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese. I hope you will like them too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The Covenant of Water Quotes
- The saddest day of a girl’s life is the day of her wedding. After that, God willing, it gets better.
- Faith is to know the pattern is there, even though none is visible.
- In their revealing, as in their keeping, secrets can tear a family apart.
- 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!
- Travel broadens the mind and loosens the bowels.
- The sight of suffering is familiar; its language transcends all borders.
- Small things make a big difference. God is in the small things.
- Things have a way of coming back when we think they’re gone forever.
- Roses would be annoying weeds if the blooms never withered and died. Beauty resides in the knowledge that it doesn’t last.
- A daughter has an open door into a father’s heart.
- The universe is nothing but a speck of foam on a limitless ocean that is the Creator.
- I never learned to read. But I learned that ignorance is never revealed if one holds one’s tongue. To speak is what removes all doubts.
- Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!
- A dog lives for you. A cat just lives with you.
- Reading is the door to knowledge. Knowledge raises the yield of paddy. Knowledge combats poverty. Knowledge saves lives.
- A man without a mustache is exposed and vulnerable, like an unbaptized child, the soul still in jeopardy.
- In a crooked house, there’s no point using the front door.
- Life is like this. Crushing is there, and success is there. Never only success.
- Success is not money! Success is you are fully loving what you are doing. That only is success!
- Yes, I am mad. You can’t set out to achieve your goals without a little madness.
- If two people at the very same moment hold visions of each other, perhaps atoms coalesce into invisible forms, like radio waves, and connect them.
- A kiss can never say the wrong things.
- One day Kerala will be the first place in the world where a Communist government is elected by a democratic ballot and not by bloody revolution.
- One shouldn’t just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.
- When a daughter falls in love, a distancing from the father is perhaps inevitable; the first man who had her heart must now compete with another.
- The voyage of discovery isn’t about new lands but having new eyes.
- We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.
- Only when one’s father and mother are both dead that one stops being a child.
- What defines a family is not blood, but the secrets they share.
- In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- There’s nothing emptier than a hospital bed to which a loved one might not return.
- The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the woman who gave birth to you.
- Pain has no past or future, just the now.