black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

Abraham Verghese

Related Topics

Alive Currency Memories Memory Proof Stories

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Cancer Crossed Cut Cutting Dessented Excised High Ocean Past Plain Plan
Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Altogether Another Care Cost Health Much Problem Reform Story
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Blade Heart Human Parenting Puncture Son Spiteful
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Confidence Expect Around First Glance More Seductive Self
Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Bowel Careful Expand Loosen Mind Travel
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Climbing Escaping House Ladder Many Pulling Tree Way
The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

God Greatest Ignoring Made Possible Sin
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Favorite Mathematics Number Pray Praying Share Tell
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Absurdity Arrive Descend Hole Job Place Point Preserve relief Yourself
Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Broken Family Ground Indian Modern New Read Sandip Roy Tale
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Believe Beyond Death Doctor Early Lucky Physician Purpose Starvation Unbidden
No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Barber Bleeding Cupping Giving Matter Purging Surgeon Teeth
When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Basic Cared Feel Human Life Patient Right Save
My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Admit Certainly Doctor Intent Myself One Subconsciously World Young
We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Disease Fighting Food Help Medicine Money Poverty

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes