37 Quotes from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese

Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 37 quotes from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese that I underlined while reading the book. I hope you will like these quotes too.

By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.

Quotes on Daughters

A daughter has an open door into a father's heart.
When a daughter falls in love, a distancing from the father is perhaps inevitable; the first man who had her heart must now compete with another.

Quotes on Family

Every family has secrets, but not all secrets are meant to deceive.
What defines a family is not blood, but the secrets they share.

Quotes on Success

Life is like this. Crushing is there, and success is there. Never only success.
Success is not money! Success is you are fully loving what you are doing. That only is success!

More Quotes

Small things make a big difference. God is in the small things.
The Madras evening breeze has a body to it, its atomic constituents knitted together to create a thing of substance that strokes and cools the skin in the manner of a long, icy drink or a plunge into a mountain spring. [...] Yes, yes, you are having your Taj Mahal, your Golden Temple, your Eiffel Tower, but can anything match our Madras evening breeze?
Things have a way of coming back when we think they're gone forever.
Roses would be annoying weeds if the blooms never withered and died. Beauty resides in the knowledge that it doesn't last.
It hurts me to think that we may not have a life together. But it doesn't stop me loving you.
The universe is nothing but a speck of foam on a limitless ocean that is the Creator.
Leprosy deadens the nerves and is therefore painless; the real wound of leprosy, and the only pain they feel, is that of exile.
I never learned to read. But I learned that ignorance is never revealed if one holds one's tongue. To speak is what removes all doubts.
Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!
A dog lives for you. A cat just lives with you.
In this upside-down world, snarls are smiles, ugly is beautiful, and the crippled outwork the able-bodied, but tears are the same.
What differentiates us from other animals isn't the opposable thumb. It's our brains. That's what made us the dominant species. Not hands, but what we think to do with our hands.
Reading is the door to knowledge. Knowledge raises the yield of paddy. Knowledge combats poverty. Knowledge saves lives.
A man without a mustache is exposed and vulnerable, like an unbaptized child, the soul still in jeopardy.
In a crooked house, there's no point using the front door.
Yes, I am mad. You can't set out to achieve your goals without a little madness.
Secrets are hidden in the most obvious places.
A kiss can never say the wrong things.
Men like to think that women forget the pain upon seeing the blessed baby. No. A woman forgives the child, and she might even forgive the father. But she never forgets.
Some people, no matter what they do, just seem larger, more significant, more confident than others.
One day Kerala will be the first place in the world where a Communist government is elected by a democratic ballot and not by bloody revolution.
One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.
What is unknown is often just undiscovered.
The voyage of discovery isn't about new lands but having new eyes.
We don't have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.
We are dying while we're living, we are old even when we're young, we are clinging to life even as we resign ourselves to leaving it.
Only when one's father and mother are both dead that one stops being a child.
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the woman who gave birth to you.
This is the end of one life. And the beginning of another that I could never have imagined. I have no choice, which is the best kind of choice.
Pain has no past or future, just the now.