The Physician * Quotes

Ibn Sina: "This is the burden every physician must learn to bear. You can't look upon death as the enemy."
Rob Cole: "Than what? A friend?"
Ibn Sina: "I've calculated the orbits of all these stars and planets. Filled volumes with calculations. I have barely scratched the real secrets of creation."
Rob Cole: "Isn't it frustrating there's so much you don't know?"
Ibn Sina: "No. It fills me with awe. How pale and tedious would this world be without mystery."

"Because there is nothing to be afraid of. Death is merely a threshold we must all cross, into the silence, after the final heartbeat. Drifting away with our final exhalation into eternal peace..."

"Master, nothing is as it is in the books! Nothing!"

"I don't want to treat warts all my life. I don't want to pull teeth and sell horse piss as a miracle tonic. I want to learn how to cure cataracts, side sickness and all other diseases."

Rebecca: "In my fever, I dreamt that we were man and wife. We had children... four!"
Rob Cole: "Did we roam around in a barber's car?"
Rebecca: "No, we lived in a great city. Where you built a Madraza!"
Rob Cole: "All by myself?"

Rebecca: I helped.

"May the Lord have mercy upon me! Bless me in my long and dangerous journey. Let not the waves engulf me nor sea monsters devour me. Let not bandits slit my throat, or wolves eat me alive. Let me not starve or get lost in the dark woods or cold mountains. And please let Jesus forgive me that I shall deny my faith and soil myself with sin to serve your creation and glory."

"If you don't like the looks of me, you shouldn't have fallen off your broomstick, hag."