Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

transverberation,

The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.”

abattoir

You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

venerate

novitiates

stevedores

antiphons,

fugue

conjunctivae,

apogee

the poor, and even at times in the royal palace, that she felt valued. Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted?

proselytizing.

gravid

firmament

cantonment

of her thighs white as cream. He remembered those generous glutei that

Amharic,

somatization

prospectus.

interred.

Discalced

moribund,

fecundity)

amanuensis.

parsimonious

obstinacy.

olfaction.

palavered

jodhpurs.

culvert

pellucid

jocular.

portico

prurient

In order to start to get rid of your slippers, you have to admit they are yours, and if you do, then they will get rid of themselves.”

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.”

remonstrate.

agonal,

protoplasm

exsanguinating,”

sinuous

arrack,

leonine

chitinous

paregoric

augury

fistula.

proletariat.

tremulous