Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life, and faith is the oil. - Cutting for Stone

Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!

Ghosh trusted me to do whatever it is I would choose to do. That, too, is love. He'd been dead more than a quarter century and he was still teaching me about the trust that comes only from true love.

Encouraged by the old surgical saw "Any idiot can amputate a led," Ghosh had decided to proceed. If he hesitated, it was because the rest of the saying went "but it takes a skilled surgeon to save one."