Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted…

“The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined.”

— Blakney Francis

Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.

— Gao Xingjian

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of…

— Cassandra Clare

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in…

— Carl Sandburg

“It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one…

— Jodi Picoult

“He sighed, his hands tangling themselves in my already-knotted hair. “Violet, don’t ever leave me. Whatever happens; however things get, just don’t go. Please.”

— Abigail Gibbs

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

— Rudyard Kipling

“To a casual passerby, his appearance would not have inspired much confidence. His overcoat was patched in spots and frayed at the cuffs, he…

— John Stephens

“I was captivated. My own hair was easily as long as Olga's, but it frizzed and knotted at every opportunity. When it was combed,…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Love is like knotted yarn. If you cant untangle it, its better to cut it

— Anonymous

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

— Dean Koontz

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

— Janet Fitch

“The ship's surgeon was a spotty unshaven little man whose clothes, arrayed with smudges, drippings, and cigarette burns, were held about him by an…

— William Gaddis

When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.

— Tim Pigott-Smith