Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.

“Melvin Brands took bread, and the foot, wrapped in camphored cloth.”

— Julie Berry

Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

— Megan Whalen Turner

“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what…

— Christopher Hitchens

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

— Anonymous

“It’s like putting a band-aid on an amputation!”

— Natasha Anders

At 70, my late father, Peter, underwent a foot amputation after surgical complications. There were suggestions that at his age being in a wheelchair…

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

“in an interview Butler has stated that the meaning of the amputation is clear enough: “I couldn’t really let her come all the way…

— Octavia E. Butler

To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation or amputation

— Rudolf Breuss

“Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had…

— Emma Donoghue

“Everybody's amputated in some way or another, Shiloh. We lose loved ones, cut off memories forever, end relationships. Go down paths we can't return…

— Jennifer Rogers Spinola

Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, -…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Pop's leg was across the room when I came downstairs.”

— Kathryn Miller Haines

I had nerve damage. It was going to lead to amputation. I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol.

— Eric Adams

I think any break-up from a long relationship has this accompanying feeling of who am I without this person. You feel like a half-person…

— Greta Gerwig