Title Meaning Quotes

“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

“...not even bones, only ashes remained when Nita rose. Not even her mother could put herself back together after being blown to literal smithereens.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise