“As Oscar Wilde once said, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.”

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

“To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.”

“I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.”

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

“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.”

“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”