Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes…

— Joseph Bruchac

My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a…

— Anonymous

Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

— William Butler Yeats

“A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world.”

— Jonathan Auxier

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

— Philip K. Dick

Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task…

— Terry Eagleton

Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and…

— David Levithan

“am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world. The tiny elf dancer became a wooden doll whose strings…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of…

— Anonymous

Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the…

— Laini Taylor

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children cultivate contemplation,…

— Marianne Williamson

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

— Philip K. Dick

He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it.…

— Raymond Chandler