"It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held on to his battered, much repaired pair of slippers even though they were objects of derision. At ..."
- Abraham Verghese
"Geography is destiny."
"I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain. I believe this is how Thomas Stone materializ..."
"God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace."
"Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief."
"There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-"
"When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each time he consciously recalls her, that forms a new memory, a new imprint to be stacked on top of ..."
"... telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology."
"When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious."
"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."