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...
("Cutting for Stone")
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The trajectory of her scholastic progress to that point was spectacular and unprecedented, a model for all youth; it was also an invitation to fate to stick out a foot and trip her.
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There it was, Hema must have thought; it was both the sorry and the thank-you that was so long overdue, and the funny thing was that at this moment, she didn't care. It no longer mattered. She didn't even look his way.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
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