Stitches Quotes

106 quotes by 91 authors

There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are.… — Marya Hornbacher
The more stitches, the less riches. — Aldous Huxley
The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a… — C.S. Lewis
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily. — Anne Lamott
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My… — Haruki Murakami
I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch — Adrienne Rich
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when… — Carolyn Parkhurst
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like… — Wendell Berry
When I bite you, it'll be because I want to make your toes curl and your hair stand on end. And you won't need stitches… — Jennifer Rardin
Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk,"… — Dean Koontz
Wherever you look thereâ€™s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and… — Carson McCullers
To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of… — Louise Erdrich
The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!" Esperanza… — Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan
Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off.… — Janet Evanovich
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
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
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals. — Yann Martel
You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches. — Eric Jerome Dickey
Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Most of the guests back up, making way for this rarity, this dazzling… — Suzanne Collins
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air. — Gwendolyn Brooks

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