Abraham Verghese, Cutting For Stone Quotes
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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 cares what doctrine we embrace.
Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?
Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.
Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone
Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine.And so I became a surgeon.
Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort, " I said to my father.
...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 of time.
... telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.
Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.
A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world...
When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity makes beauty contemptibleWisdom is more valuable than riches.