David Biro > Quotes

“In all these years, it never failed to amaze him, this magnificent dappled sea of bone marrow, ever regenerating and replenishing itself in an ongoing cycle that made life possible”
― David Biro, This Magnificent Dappled Sea

“When anything and everything goes, there are no real values, no definite right and wrong.”
― David Biro, This Magnificent Dappled Sea

“confused and upset”
― David Biro, This Magnificent Dappled Sea

“One of the most important skills in my profession is prognosis, the prediction of what will happen to a patient going forward.”
― David Biro, This Magnificent Dappled Sea

“He peered through the microscope until the blood cells materialized, red and blue and shades in between, different shapes and sizes… In all these years, it never failed to amaze him, this magnificent dappled sea of bone marrow, ever regenerating and replenishing itself in an ongoing cycle that made life possible – red cells that carried oxygen, white cells that fought off infection, and platelets that made the blood clot.”
― David Biro, This Magnificent Dappled Sea

“Joseph shook his head. How could such a thing happen? It made him think of William Blake’s poem where a worm finds its way into a bed of luminous, red roses—O world thou art sick. He tried to divert himself by focusing on the drive. People were lining up to get tested. He watched them offer their arms to the technician; the dark-red fluid flowing from syringes into glass vials; the vials placed into plastic crates; the crates stacked one on top of another. The blood would be screened in a laboratory for the specific genetic markers on white blood cells and then compared to Emily’s. Hopefully, a match would be found.”
― David Biro, This Magnificent Dappled Sea

“That was what getting old was all about, she’d begun to realize: a growing heap of memories piling up around you, a Mount Everest of memories. The very opposite of being young, when the ground ahead lay level and bare, a vast open space that stretched on forever and ever, waiting to be explored.”
― David Biro, And the Bridge Is Love

“If everyone’s perspective is equally right, she warned her husband, then there is no absolute right, and everything goes. It could leave you without bearings, adrift and lost.”
― David Biro, This Magnificent Dappled Sea

“yarmulke.”
― David Biro, This Magnificent Dappled Sea

“Almost simultaneously their eyes alighted on a small opening in the twisted branches of the trees, affording them a direct line of sight to the majestic Verrazzano Bridge. Together the women gazed at the slate-gray metal towers soaring skyward, the steel cables delicately draped from one tower to the other, ascending and descending, the small squares and larger rectangles moving back and forth over the curved roadway.”
― David Biro, And the Bridge Is Love

“At these moments sufferers desperately want to escape from their holes, the silence and loneliness, and return to the world we share with others… At these moments, language, the means of expression we are most comfortable with, becomes truly therapeutic – a form of medicine that has the power to relieve our suffering”
― David Biro, The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief