some crooked things looked even worse when straightened…

It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

— Hugh Howey

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

— John Locke

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

— Josh Ritter

“Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“I’m afraid of a lot of things, but mostly, most sincerely, I am afraid of being completely unraveled by you, and you finding nothing…

— L M Dorsey

“So entangled are we in our own designs that the concurrent and often conflicting plots of our families, friends, and enemies may come to…

— Michael Malone

“I picked at one of the buttons on my vest until the thread unraveled and it fell into my palm. Memo to self- buy…

— Anita Higman

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

— Jonathan Swift

“His soul's fabric was weaving itself with mine. I loved the frayed ends where it came unraveled, and I loved the strength at its…

— Jeri Smith-Ready

“I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment . . . ' This was what came of violating the sentimentality quota. Everything he…

— Courtney Milan

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

— Louise Erdrich

“I can see the years that Thomas and I have had together, the fragility of that life. The creation of a marriage, of a…

— Anita Shreve

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of…

— William Ellery Channing

She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go…

— Jodi Picoult

When I was a boy, I'd hide under the kitchen table and wind string around the chairs. I have a sense now that I…

— W. G. Sebald