Heartbroken by the loss of someone I didn't even know. It's difficult to type with tears welling up in your eyes. I think i need a moment to gather and contemplate on my thoughts.

Updated on 20th June, 2016

"What happened to Paul was a tragic, but he wasn't a tragedy."

Like, In the foreword, Abraham Verghese, told us that he got know Paul when he was cease to be in a way he couldn't have, had he had the chance to call him his friend. I feel the same way; even though, I never met Paul It feels like I have lost someone very dear to me.

"We carry with us wonders, we seek without us. "

If he were alive, he would have become a great writer some day. This book was beautifully written, every word, every sentences, was heart warming, kind of like food for soul. I can't review someone's life, obviously, so I am only going tell you that you should read this book. It will change your perspective on life.

Here are some beautiful quotes from the book that I loved and don't want to forget.

"We are never as wise as when we live in the moment."

"if the unexamined life wasn't worth living, was the unlived live worth examining? "

"Cadavers reserve the polarity. The mannequins you pretend are real, the Cadavers you pretend are fake."

"one day we are born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second... birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an Instant, then it's night once more."

"They see the past and accumulation of memories, the freshly felt love, all represented by the body before them. I see the possible futures."

"I was not yet with my patients in their pivotal moments, I was merely at those pivotal moments."

"Are you hungry? What can I get you to eat?"
"Anything" she said. "I am starving."
"Well, how about lobster and steak?" he picked up the phone and called the nursing station. "My patient needs lobster and steak- right away." Turning back to her, he said, with a smile: "it's on the way, but it may look more like a Turkey sandwich."

"You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote towards which you are ceaselessly striving."

"cease not till death."

"A little learning is a dangerous thing/drink deep, or taste not the pierian spring."

"it occured to me that my relationship with statistic changed as soon as I became one."

"Doctors are entrusted to bring that person's expectations into the realm of reasonable possibilities."

"Getting two deep into statistic is like trying to quench thirst with salty water."

"like my own patients, I had to face my mortality and try to understand what made my life worth living."

"The defining characteristic of organisms is striving."

"I can't go on. I'll go on."

"I felt like someone had taken away my credit card and I was having to learn how to budget."

"Death maybe a one time event, but living with terminal illness is a process."

"Maybe I had been cursed by a Greek God, but abdicating control seemed irresponsible, if not impossible."

" These days, time feels less like the ticking clock and more like state of being."

"When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount the fact you filled a dying man's days with sated joys, a joy unknown to me in my prior years, a joy that doesn't hunger for more and more but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, it's an enormous thing.

"Can you breath ok with my head on your chest like this." his answer was "it is the only way I know how to breathe."

"Paul faced each face of illness with grace - not with bravado or misguided faith that he would overcome or beat cancer but with authenticity that allowed him to grief the loss of the future he had planned and forge a new one."

"Bereavement is not the truncation of married love, but one of its regular phases - like the honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully in that phase too.

"When people die, people tend to say great things about them. Please know all the wonderful things people are now saying about your dad are true. He really was that great and brave. "