Stitches Quotes

106 Stitches quotes by 91 unique authors

Wherever you look there’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
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 you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’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
She’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,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together… — Rohinton Mistry

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