“If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.”

If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you.

Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.

Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,

I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, ‘I’m not even a 10th of this man.’

I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue.

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.