Quote by Amy Bloom

“I once saw a show about an amputee who lost his leg and still feels it. He actually wakes up at night to scratch…

— Sophie Jordan

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

Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know…

— Audrey Niffenegger

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

“IMPAIRMENT: Lacking part or all of…or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body DISABILITY: The disadvantage or restriction of activity caused…

— Mike Oliver

“Oedipa sat on the earth, ass getting cold, wondering whether, as Driblette had suggested that night from the shower, some version of herself hadn’t…

— Thomas Pynchon

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

— Chanakya

“I was recently diagnosed with dyslexia and restless leg syndrome. The doctor arrived at this prognosis after my arm wouldn't stop shaking.”

— Jarod Kintz

Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life,…

— Laini Taylor

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

— Luigi Pirandello

“It is as though she was a phantom watching from the shadows. This at least is how she 'writes' herself: as an absence on…

— Lilian Pizzichini

“I’m officially disabled, but I’m truly enabled because of my lack of limbs.”

— Nick Vujicic