“Life too is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic." p 108” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward." from CUTTING FOR STONE” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I am forced to render some order to the events of my life, to say it began here, and then because of… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“You know what's given me the greatest pleasure in my life? It's been our bungalow, the normalcy of it, the ordinariness of… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Hema thought of Shiva, her personal deity, and how the only sensible response to the madness of life . . . was… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“This is my life, I thought, as my taxi slogged through heavy traffic and inched through the tunnel to Logan Airport. I… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I spent as much time as I could with Ghosh. I wanted every bit of wisdom he could impart to me. All… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death, lest… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Do they listen?" He held up a finger. "Every year one does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“There it was, Hema must have thought; it was both the sorry and the thank-you that was so long overdue, and the funny thing… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“This is my life, I thought, as my taxi slogged through heavy traffic and inched through the tunnel to Logan Airport. I have excised… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I could see that the almost mystical aura of this legendary surgeon -- the single-mindedness, the dedication, the skill -- was mere surface. The… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“As a child I'd longed for Thomas Stone or at least the idea of him. So many mornings I waited for him at the… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
