Water from My Heart Quotes

“Since that moment, I’d bought into the idea that isolation would ease my pain and indifference was the remedy for rejection. Clarity was quick in coming. Isolation is a prison and indifference is a lie. Neither work.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“Indifference is the curse of this age. Indifference is evil, and it couldn't be farther from the heart of God.

Afterword - On Digging a Well p. 359”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“While her emotions were very real and they gnawed at her with a raw sincerity, she was listening to something deeper. She was listening to her will, not letting what she felt dictate what she would do. Didn’t let it dictate her life.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“My life had been characterized by emptiness the size of the Sahara but there, in that moment, in the back of that truck in the armpit of Nicaragua, I wondered—for the first time—if there wasn’t a river flowing down deep inside me. If so, the water that would cleanse me was not water from my head—where I’d learned to rationalize my indifference. But water from my heart.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“This is love with legs.’ My father used to say that you can tell someone you love them until you’re blue in the face, but until they see that walked out, they have no idea what it means. Hence, ‘love with legs.’” A wide smile spread across her face. “Every day he’d climb out”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“More than that, I liked being known, and for the first time in my life, I was known by another. I’m not saying I liked what she knew about me, not proud of the bits and pieces, but somehow she was standing inside my skin and yet I didn’t experience shame at her reflection.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“deep. Something only God can do. He both broke and filled my heart at the same time. I still don’t understand that. Over”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“The mango was a mirror image of my last few days. Once beautiful, placed on display for all the world to see, it had been ripped from it's perch, thrown to the ground, rolled in manure and squalor, and left to rot. While that might have bruised it and soiled its skin, it didn't' change it's nature or what it freely offered, for once I peeled it back, an inexplicable sweetness was waiting to be discovered and tasted and consumed.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“Love with legs." A shrug. "Water from my heart.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“They'd lost the most important thing and he gave it back to them. He loved this country, he loved these people, and he loved my mom and he loved me, but that didn't earn him his legacy. He is still talked about today because he gave these people something no one had ever offered before. No government. No military. No warlord. No rebellion... He gave them hope - the currency of love - and they loved him for it.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“There's something special about a kid's smile. I see in their faces what we all used to be before the world got hold of us.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“I love them without trying to change them. I look at their suffering, their hopelessness, and while I'd like to wave a hand and fix it, I can't, so I do what I can... Climb down in their misery and love them where they are... People would much rather die holding someone's hand than live alone.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“I was struck by how everyone I encountered spent their days working feverishly to make enough money to buy a better tomorrow. Here, people are content - they buy what they need to day and leave tomorrow to God. These people dont have a death grip on their life here. They hold it loosely because they're not in control of it in the first place, and... in their experience, it can be ripped from their hands no matter how tightly they squeeze it".
Somewhere in there, I clued in to the fact that for people like me, there us an undoing that occurs here. A breaking. Like dropping a glass rod. It is the sound of the shattering of our assumptions when we learn that our pretending, our masquerading, is all vanity. As if we have any control over any of this. I, like most everyone I've known, spent most of my life furiously attempting to protect myself from the truth, from the undignified bottle beneath the hammock. Truth is, we can't protect us. These people don't suffer from the illusions that I have built up to insulate myself-namely that death wont come for me on a hammock in Nicaragua when I don't have the strength to stand so I pee in my pants. That somehow I deserve different.”
― charles martin, Water from My Heart

“Used to tell me that people spend money on three things: what they love, what they worship, and what helps ease their pain.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“There’s something special about a kid’s smile. I see in their faces what we all used to be before the world got hold of us.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“encountered spent their days working feverishly to make enough money to buy a better tomorrow. Here, people are content—they buy what they need today and leave tomorrow to God.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“When I was young, younger than Isabella, my father would walk me up in the mountains where he was tending to his coffee plants. Sometimes, he would come upon a plant that would not flourish. No matter what he did to it, it just produced no fruit. No coffee. So rather than just ripping it out by the root and throwing it off the mountain, he’d gingerly dig it up and transplant it to another place where the soil was different. Then, he’d stake it up with something stronger than itself, he’d water it, fertilize it, and give it a chance to put down roots someplace new. Sometimes”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“so, the water that would cleanse me was not water from my head—where I’d learned to rationalize my indifference. But water from my heart.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“We, all of us, have been affected by war, hurricanes, drought, economic hardship. The result is a disease—an epidemic—called ‘hopelessness.’ It’s carried on the air around here, and I am fighting it.” My”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“Este es el amor con las piernas.” She then translated without being asked. “‘This is love with legs.’ My father used to say that you can tell someone you love them until you’re blue in the face, but until they see that walked out, they have no idea what it means. Hence, ‘love with legs.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“Indifference is the curse of this age. We need to hear that. Indifference is evil, and it could not be further from the heart of God.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“Indifference is the curse of this age. We need to hear that. Indifference is evil, and it could not be further from the heart of God. Don’t think so? Let me point you to the Cross. Hanging there, Jesus was anything but indifferent.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“otherwise. “Agua de mi corazón.” I”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“Indifference is the curse of this age. We need to hear that. Indifference is evil, and it could not be further from the heart of God. Don’t think so? Let me point you to the Cross. Hanging there, Jesus was anything but indifferent. Don’t think I’ve somehow got a handle”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“People would much rather die holding someone's hand than live alone.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“My coffee had grown cold. I looked down and saw a half cut of cold coffee staring back at me. That meant, in my haste, I had not sucked it down so fast that I hadn't truly tasted it. Working with Marshall, I learned how to find and brew great coffee, but living with Hack, I learned how to taste it. Big difference.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“you feel this justifies his behavior as an adult? Is he more sympathetic because of his circumstances? Charlie tries to compartmentalize his life, to keep his business and personal life separate. Do you feel this is a reflection of American attitudes in general of keeping our private and professional lives separate? Is that a good thing? What role does money play in the lives of each of the major characters—Charlie; Amanda, Marshall, and Brendan; Colin and his family; Hack; Paulina and Paulo?  Charlie has relationships with three different women over the course of the novel. Does he end up with the right woman? How important is honesty in a relationship? Is it ever okay to deceive your partner? What if your intentions are well-meaning, and you are trying to protect that person?”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“Group Guide Discussion Questions Which character did you identify with most, or who was your favorite character, and why? Charlie had a difficult childhood. Do”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“father said to that man?” I shook my head. “He said, ‘With the one that you have.”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart

“My father used to hire men with troubled pasts. Prison. Everything. Give them a second chance when no one else would. One of them—a murderer—asked him one time while they were picking beans shoulder to shoulder, ‘How does a man wipe his life clean?’ You know what my”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart