Quotes by Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

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You live it forward, but understand it backward. — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents y — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity makes beauty contemptibleWisdom is more valuable than riches. — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed he — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Being the first born gives you great patience. — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house t — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world... — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Everyone needed an obsession. — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held on to his battere — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Geography is destiny. — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together i — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief. — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each time he consciou — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
... telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology. — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious. — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the o — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
...a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone