Absence Quote by Anonymous

Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle everything I do is stitched with its color.

— Anonymous

I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.

— Louise Bourgeois

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my…

— Gayle Forman

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that -…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for…

— Jo Brand

“I pull out the blue spool of thread and the sharp needle I always keep in the left pocket of my dress--because old seams…

— Shea Ernshaw

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

— Sylvia Plath

“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

“The whole thing starts with a single knot and needles. A word and pen. Tie a loop in nothing. Look at it. Cast on,…

— Gwyneth Lewis

“Feel like you are falling apart at the seams? If so, grab a needle and thread , and learn how to sew.”

— Christine Szymanski

Three days after my boyfriend left me, I discovered a closetful of his clothes. I thought of what I'd done in the past (bundling…

— Anne Elizabeth Moore

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we…

— Anne Lamott