Knitting Quote by Hamilton Wright Mabie

“...the one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate.”

— Charles Dickens

“And how she smiled and how she laughed, the maiden of the tree. She spun away and said to him, no featherbed for me.…

— George R.R. Martin

“She would never again try to knit even one stitch in the long chain of their married life. She hated all that was to…

— Christina Stead

“She was a girl held together by knitted yarn and magic.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

“I threw myself upon the ground, and wept: I then sprang up, and ran out upon the terrace, and saw, under the shade of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Happily I didn't see her after she'd died, except for her legs, which were visible from the doorway and looked like slender tree limbs…

— Arthur Golden

“Her eyes held my grief, and her body gathered in my pain and knit it into herself as if she were an old marsh…

— Kim Echlin

“She felt the sap rising through the trees as the blood coursing through her body, the grass sprouting out of the forest floor as…

— Tara Heavey

“Her thoughts rambled, but she wasn’t daydreaming. Her senses were sharp. She caught the fall of every leaf in the garden, the rustle of…

— Kristin Cashore

“For Ethel, it was exactly as if one of the twisted beech trees behind the castle had knocked at her door one morning to…

— Timothée de Fombelle

“If a person knits as you speak of the past, you can become mesmerized. As the yarn unwinds from its skein your memories naturally…

— Kathleen Winter

“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were…

— Sheri S. Tepper