Knots Quotes

212 Knots quotes by 173 unique authors

The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse… — Italo Calvino
The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I… — Janet Fitch
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. — Margaret Atwood
I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the… — Terry McMillan
This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her… — Jodi Picoult
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
He took a duck in the face at 250 knots. — William Gibson
you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song. — Jacob Grimm
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to… — Jeanette Winterson
i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk… — Saul Williams
the man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separateâ€¦ — Anne Sexton
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
All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and… — Karen Marie Moning
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would… — Glenway Wescott
The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful… — Jodi Picoult
A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find… — P. C. Cast
Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out… — Richard Siken
But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does… — J M Coetzee
Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were… — Jodi Picoult
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot… — Suzanne Collins

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