Quotes by : Abraham Verghese

We stopped you from going, didn't we? Me and Shiva. Our birth?"Don't be silly. Can you imagine me giving....

The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family,....

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God,....

My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best....

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit,....

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-....

Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine.And so I became a surgeon.

When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each....

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

Years later, when Idi Amin said and did outrageous things, I understood that his motivation was to rattle....