The Covenant of Water Quotes by Abraham Verghese

It comes free with a splash, a pink jewel, a miracle that something so beautiful can emerge from water so murky.

Neyah wouldn’t let him, and asked how the memory part of the spirit was written. Father took the reed from Neyah’s hand and drew a jar.… “For a jar holds fluids, which of all earthly substances are nearest to that which has not earthly form. When a man is born for the first time, his jar of memory is empty; gradually through his many lives it is fi

‘But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby she gives it water, inside her body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a li

God's lingering work with Abraham succeeded in fulfilling his faith when he so freely trusted his relationship with God that his heart was free to open itself so that nothing within it was hidden from God. Not even his only son, for whom he had waited for over 20 years, stood between God and Abraham.