The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEHow we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
ABRAHAM VERGHESETo be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEHe was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIf we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIt’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEShe felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’ve had my share of angels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEStudents undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIt was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThey realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE