Communication Quote by Jane Smiley

“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

“Marriage is a Bond so Strong, yet it gets weak if the knitters (the couples) do not weave the threads carefully, lovingly.”

— Sara Khan

“those kisses...repaired and soothed and knit together the weave of married life.”

— Eloisa James

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“I thoroughly enjoyed their company. I loved how open and supportive and nonjudgemental they were. There is just something about women who spend hours…

— Penny Reid

“Was this, she thought, what happened when one made friends with a married woman? One automatically got the husband too? - like a crochet…

— Sarah Waters

“A week later, I was struggling through a scarf. I made a mess of it, randomly adding stitches, dropping stitches, then adding even more.…

— Kathryn Vercillo

“It’s just a part of her life. Sewing her world back together again, sometimes even daily.”

— Julie Anne Long

“I wasn't sure Lorraine and others like her-ones who were so despairing of marriage, ones who were so sure their expectations could never be…

— Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

“The outside pressure to be married was intense. This had surprised her a decade ago, but now she thought she understood. People wanted you…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Life had a way of seeping into the seams of a marriage and slowly prying them open,”

— Victoria Helen Stone

“On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to…

— Miranda Neville