Born Quote by Charles Bukowski

I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.

— Amy Purdy

My partner said she was leaving me so I cut off her legs. She soon came crawling back.

— Green Monk

my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.

— Natalie Babbitt

My legs were my life.

— Lauren Wasser

Of course, I was 19 years old, and I suddenly lost my legs. It was extremely traumatic at the time, but I'm so beyond…

— Amy Purdy

I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn't have had the opportunity to…

— Amy Purdy

I go into it with the attitude that I'm not going to look at my leg, and as soon as they get the wrapping…

— Tony Stewart

I had the strangest sensation of floating, of drifting farther and farther away with nothing and no one to cling to. I was standing…

— Alexandra Bracken

I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone…

— Alice Sebold

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top…

— Douglas Bader

And I heard the sound of her little feet across the hardwood floor and I knelt down with my arms open wide.

— Mark Harris

I was on my way to fetch my little sister from school when I met with an accident. A bike which was at a…

— Shakti Mohan