The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese

Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”

For the children it was as though the scythe that swung through their house the month prior, taking away their beloved grandmother, had, on its backswing, cut down their mother.

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.

I have no choice, which is the best kind of choice.