“How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“You had to exert yourself to see this world. But if you did, if you had that kind of curiosity, if you had an innate interest in the welfare of your fellow human beings, and if you went through that door, a strange thing happened: you left your petty troubles on the threshold. It could be addictive”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
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