Stitches Quotes

106 quotes by 91 authors

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches. — Jim Butcher
Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement… — Gayle Forman
Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests. — Catherynne M. Valente
But... when I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave… — Stephenie Meyer
If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn… — Laurie Halse Anderson
When I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave its… — Stephenie Meyer
Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Even if youâ€™ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. Itâ€™s hard to be really naked.… — Catherynne M. Valente
Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in… — Toni Morrison
Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and… — Richard Siken
Sheâ€™s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching… — Suzanne Collins
Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows… — Suzanne Collins
Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me. — China Mieville
But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out. — Paolo Bacigalupi
If time were a bolt of cloth,â€ said Om, â€œI would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together… — Rohinton Mistry
You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or… — Richard Siken
For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they… — William Shakespeare
You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix… — Jessica Sorensen
I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches tight and I could unpick them any… — Tana French
Why are you so weird?" "Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch." "At least what I do is… — Alexandra Bracken

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