Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
ABRAHAM VERGHESEDon’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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