The Water Keeper

by Charles Martin

‘We don’t love because people love us back. We love because we can. Because we were made to. Because it’s all we have. Because, at the end of the day, evil can take everything save one thing: your love. And when you come to realize that, that the only thing you really control in this life is your love, you’ll see, maybe for the first time, that we’re all just lost.’

I’d spent my life searching for and finding the lost. Returning the one to the ninety-nine. But who would rescue me?

you can even drive a spear through it, pierce its very heart. But all you’re going to get is blood and water, because love gives birth to love.