Knit Quotes

154 quotes by 136 authors

It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is… — Douglas Coupland
I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches… — Laurie Halse Anderson
....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste. — David Foster Wallace
I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We werenâ€™t exactly… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Arthur, with his keen blue eyes and hair of burnished gold, his ready smile and guileless countenance. Wide and heavy of shoulder, long of limb,… — Stephen R. Lawhead
So this was it. You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday's underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how… — Kate Jacobs
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And… — Leo Tolstoy
Our souls are knit. We are one person, James. — Cassandra Clare
To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to… — Paula McLain
Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just… — David Mitchell
...I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make you a shawl."… — Laini Taylor
Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place â€“ to one friend rather… — C.S. Lewis
Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a… — Tony Kushner
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no… — Shane Claiborne
I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely… — Robin Sloan
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected — Robin Sloan

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