The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese

But such memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable.

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.

We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.