Cutting For Stone Quotes

“The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot providing the only light, elephants stampeding outside while the good doctor recited Cicero and excised part of himself as blithely as if he were cutting for stone on the body of another.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death, lest for forget, is the common lot.”
― Abraham Verghese