Phantom Limbs Quotes
- I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All… — Harvey Pekar
- It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present.… — Camilla Gibb
- ...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --… — Diane Ackerman
- She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a… — Sarah Dunn
- But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything… — Jodi Picoult
- 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 about… — Audrey Niffenegger
- Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer — that it was better to leave well… — Tom Perrotta
- I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and… — Nora Ephron