They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were…

We come to this book because something is missing in our souls. This book will take you through the steps that you stumbled over…

— Ruben Papian

“If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.”

— Jodi Picoult

“It's not easy losing someone," she said. "It never goes away, does it?" "The Phantom Pain, they call it," I said. "Like amputees get…

— John Boyne

There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or…

— Aimee Mullins

The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of…

— Virginia Henderson

The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more…

— Lauren Fleshman

“Among Walter Reed amputees, physiotherapists had a reputation for being “all chesty,” often challenging (and beating) the nurses at a game of basketball.70”

— Beth Linker

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another…

— Angela Carter

The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of…

— Virginia Henderson

Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That’s how his mind felt—like his…

— Rick Riordan

With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock…

— Jeremy Robert Johnson

“Once he had told her something that she could not imagine: that amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches, in the leg that is no longer…

— Gabriel García Márquez

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

— Aimee Mullins

“Amputees suffer itches, cramps and even severe pains in a leg that is no longer there. It can be the same with love...”

— José N. Harris