Ciska
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Abraham   Verghese
“Secrecy lives in the same rooms as loneliness.”
Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

Abraham   Verghese
“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

Abraham   Verghese
“You can’t walk across a lake just because you change its name to “land.” Labels matter.”
Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

Abraham   Verghese
“there’s no going back; time and water move on relentlessly.”
Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

Abraham   Verghese
“I am so behind that yesterday catches up with tomorrow.”
Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

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