“Embroidery is an improbable hobby for someone as disordered as me, but it's the very precision of it that attracts me, the illusion of control it offers. When engaged in stitching a new pattern, I can't think about anything else.… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
“There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven into it - this fabulous, complex pattern of life and death, full of recurring motifs and waves of… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
“Embroidery is an improbable hobby for someone as disordered as me, but it's the very precision of it that attracts me, the illusion of… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
“Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a sort of lark or something. Our tradition… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
“Cat wrinkled her nose. "No, thank you." "Take," the rais told her. "Is good." He picked one up and held it out, and when… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
“They had joked together as young men that they planned to die before their wives; it was the best way, since neither man could… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
“There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven into it… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
