Hello. Here is a list of 39 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. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Faith is to know the pattern is there, even though none is visible. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- In their revealing, as in their keeping, secrets can tear a family apart. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- 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! – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Travel broadens the mind and loosens the bowels. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- The sight of suffering is familiar; its language transcends all borders. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Small things make a big difference. God is in the small things. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- The Madras evening breeze has a body to it, its atomic constituents knitted together to create a thing of substance that strokes and cools the skin in the manner of a long, icy drink or a plunge into a mountain spring. […] Yes, yes, you are having your Taj Mahal, your Golden Temple, your Eiffel Tower, but can anything match our Madras evening breeze? – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Things have a way of coming back when we think they’re gone forever. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Roses would be annoying weeds if the blooms never withered and died. Beauty resides in the knowledge that it doesn’t last. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- A daughter has an open door into a father’s heart. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- The universe is nothing but a speck of foam on a limitless ocean that is the Creator. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Reality is always messy. Once you open the belly, it’s never as neat as the textbook suggested. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- 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. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives! – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- A dog lives for you. A cat just lives with you. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- One can witness a spirit heal, just as much as one can see a wound heal. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- What differentiates us from other animals isn’t the opposable thumb. It’s our brains. That’s what made us the dominant species. Not hands, but what we think to do with our hands. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Reading is the door to knowledge. Knowledge raises the yield of paddy. Knowledge combats poverty. Knowledge saves lives. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- A man without a mustache is exposed and vulnerable, like an unbaptized child, the soul still in jeopardy. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- In a crooked house, there’s no point using the front door. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Life is like this. Crushing is there, and success is there. Never only success. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Success is not money! Success is you are fully loving what you are doing. That only is success! – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- 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. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Secrets are hidden in the most obvious places. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- A kiss can never say the wrong things. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Some people, no matter what they do, just seem larger, more significant, more confident than others. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- 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. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- One shouldn’t just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- 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. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- The voyage of discovery isn’t about new lands but having new eyes. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- We are dying while we’re living, we are old even when we’re young, we are clinging to life even as we resign ourselves to leaving it. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Only when one’s father and mother are both dead that one stops being a child. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- Every family has secrets, but not all secrets are meant to deceive. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- What defines a family is not blood, but the secrets they share. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- There’s nothing emptier than a hospital bed to which a loved one might not return. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
- The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the woman who gave birth to you. – Quote from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese