“To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.”

— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Princess

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Ken Schoolland (1950) American academic

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“The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

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“Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

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“I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.”

L.A. Meyer (1942–2014) American writer

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“If we didn't lose anything during life, we would lose life without anything.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Si nada se nos fuera durante la vida, se nos iría la vida sin nada.
Voces (1943)

“I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

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