"Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation." — Gail Caldwell
"Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation."
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24 Quotes by Gail Caldwell
Gail Caldwell has 24 quotes on this site.
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Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become…
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My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out…
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What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to…
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You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake…
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The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks…
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The flaw is the thing we love.
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The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
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The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.
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The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to…
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Grief is what tells you who you are alone.
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I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.
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I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often…
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More Amputation Quotes
This quote is filed under Amputation Quotes,
one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
— Margaret Atwood
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I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation…
— Unknown Author
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The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who…
— Terry Fox
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When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to…
— Philip Graham Ryken
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It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from…
— Camilla Gibb
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In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War…
— Sam Kean
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out…
— Edward Gorey
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
— Marge Piercy
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery…
— Diane Ackerman
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Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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