Abraham Verghese Quotes

He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.

Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

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.

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.