24 quotes
"A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth."
Cutting for Stone (2009)
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
Cutting for Stone (2009)
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
The Covenant of Water (2023)
And that is how he passed from this life to the next, without fanfare, with characteristic simplicity, fearless, opening his eyes that last time to make sure we were fine before he went on.
Cutting for Stone (2009)
Maybe it was written on my face that I'd become aware of human complexity - that's a kinder word than "deceit".
Cutting for Stone (2009)
All possibilities resided within me, and they required me to be here. If I left, what would be left of me?
Cutting for Stone (2009)
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.
Cutting for Stone (2009)
Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!
The Covenant of Water (2023)
All my ghosts had vanished; the retribution that they sought had been exacted. I had nothing more to give and nothing to fear.
Cutting for Stone (2009)
Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life, and faith is the oil.
The Covenant of Water (2023)
In a life, it is the in-betweens that are fatal.
The Covenant of Water (2023)
You can’t walk across a lake just because you change its name to “land.” Labels matter.
The Covenant of Water (2023)
To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.
The Covenant of Water (2023)
Sometimes we have to “live the question,” not push for the answer.
The Covenant of Water (2023)
You can’t set out to achieve your goals without a little madness.
The Covenant of Water (2023)
Roses would be annoying weeds if the blooms never withered and died. Beauty resides in the knowledge that it doesn’t last.
The Covenant of Water (2023)
Ghosh trusted me to do whatever it is I would choose to do. That, too, is love. He'd been dead more than a quarter century and he was still teaching me about the trust that comes only from true love.
Cutting for Stone (2009)
Success is not money! Success is you are fully loving what you are doing. That only is success!
The Covenant of Water (2023)
We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.
The Covenant of Water (2023)