It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars.

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.

It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare.

their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be

But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw, " that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me.

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.

I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

Use our memories as an asset not as a liability. Don't let it be our inner curse but share them as a rare gift.

If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional Love. ~~ Revathi Sankaran

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.