Books Quote by Abraham Verghese

“Character is much easier kept than recovered, and that man, if any such there be, who, from sinister views, or littleness of soul, lends…

— Thomas Paine

“a stone image shed a miraculous tear of compassion over the incertitudes of life and death....”

— Joseph Conrad

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

“After slipping on a negligee and making herself comfortable on the lounge, she became conscious that she was miserable and that the tears were…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.”

— Raymond L. Atkins

“He had no cause for self-reproach on the score of neglect, or want of thought, for he had been devoted to her service; and…

— Charles Dickens

“He wrote with terrible rapidity, the twig in his fingers rilling blood without renewal; but in the middle of a sentence his hands denied…

— Ambrose Bierce

“His anguish had grown skeletal in its solitude. He wished it didn’t have to be so, that one could ingest pain and keep it…

— Tatjana Soli

“He felt the same way about pulling teeth as he did about amputating limbs, hating to take away something he was never going to…

— Noah Gordon

“He remembered the forceful hand that cast him to the earth. He'd fallen like a shooting star, his flesh burning until his wings fell…

— James Burnham

“He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~”

— Marilynne Robinson

“They weren't penitent over what they'd attempted; their sorrow reached to the limits of their bodies and no further, all their anguish was in…

— Ron Hansen