How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic." p 108
Abraham Verghese...no money, no church service, no eulogy,no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit." p 354
Abraham VergheseThat'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." p 405
Abraham VergheseNo blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
Abraham VergheseStichwörter: parenting
it was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive.
Memory." p 380
Stichwörter: storytelling
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." p 533
Abraham VergheseChildren were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to, even if one came back as a dog, or a mouse, or flea that lived on the bodies of men. If...there was a raising of the dead, then a child would be sure to see that its parents were awakened.
Abraham VergheseStichwörter: children
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...
Abraham VergheseStichwörter: life-lessons
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone
Abraham VergheseStichwörter: medicine twins cutting-for-stone
I realized if something happens to him, it happens to me, too. If I love myself, I love him, for we are one. That makes it a risk worth taking for me - it wouldn't be for anyone else, unless they loved him.
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