Rise Quote by Carolyn McCray

I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from…

— Frank O'Hara

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general…

— Charles Dickens

“Given good yarn, good workmanship, and good care, a knitted shawl and outlive its knitter, providing warmth and pleasure to several generations of family…

— Martha Waterman

“The shawl's bottom edge the clearest blue, as if it has been dipped in the sea. The blue of a glance.”

— Anne Michaels

“We walked to the woods beside the pink house with her stories still pulled soft around our shoulders. I could feel them touching me…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“My favorite style, though, is the way you were wearing it earlier when you had it draped across both of your arms loosely. That…

— Colleen Houck

“We are all clothed with fleece of sheep I keep saying as if I were singing as these words do. Throw a shawl over…

— Susan Howe

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep…

— Alice Walker

When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around…

— Alice Temperley

“Disappointment or disgust–Silas couldn't tell which–flickered in the girl's eyes. Remembering to give him a demure nod, she straightened her shawl and walked away.…

— Alicia A. Willis