Elizabeth

“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“Was I the only one? Did the planet on which I was wandering have a thousand sister planets scattered across the starry sky and, at night, while I was waiting to fall asleep, and my gaze sometimes lit on some distant globe, was the same scene taking place there?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“what does having lived mean once you are no longer alive?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men