Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I've had, you know, my leg chopped off.

This is going to sound really crude, but I lost my fingers in a meat grinder.

I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.

I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.

When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.

I broke my ring finger in a trampoline accident.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

When I had my injury, I had gotten hit, and it hurt like hell.

I could see hunks of metal and rocks sticking out of my legs.

I got hurt when I was 19. They thought I broke my neck. I couldn't move my hands or feet, and I had a very bad experience.

I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

I'm not accident prone, really, but I was cutting something and sort of lost control, and it went through my big toe. There was a lot of blood and I nearly fainted, but its totally fine now.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.

The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.

I tore my ACL playing basketball.

I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.

I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal.

I was on Saipan when I got hit. Not too bad, but bad enough to hamper me if I stayed. I was hit in my left buttocks just below the belt line.