Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.

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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

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What I owe Shiva most is this: to tell the story. It is one my mother, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, did not reveal and my fearless father, Thomas Stone, ran from, and which I had to piece together. Only the telling can heal the rift that separates my brother and me. Yes, I have infinite faith in the craft of surgery, but no surgeon can heal the kind of wound that divides two brothers. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed. To begin at the beginning …

I love how the Author pulls earlier highlighted sentences into a framewok for the story im about to read.

I felt that in learning the special language of a scholarly order, I was amassing a kind of force. This was the pure and noble side of the world, uncorrupted by secrets and trickery.

Education is power. And it's positive.

He wrote in the fly leaf: Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est! “That means ‘Knowledge is power!’ Oh, I do believe that,

Like i said in my earlier note!

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.

So true but hard to do.