Loose ends Quote by Marilyn Brant

“She could feel her mind pulling loose like knitting, the neat stitches of her artificial days unravelling to become one mangled thread.”

— Frances Hardinge

“She was held together by a thread. Not even a strong fishing wire, but the kind of thread that could fray and break in…

— R.L. Griffin

“I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience…

— Anne Brontë

“Often, when I sewed, I would slip into a meditative state, almost as if I'd become one with the fabric and thread. At these…

— Gioia Diliberto

“She had constant tension from her magic knotted into the rooms and surrounding city, and even if that had not been the case, she…

— Kiersten White

“The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell. It coiled in her guts as she wedged herself amongst the boughs of a tree…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She was inexorably in motion, on her way to a fate that would not include him, and though she missed him still, she was…

— Hillary Jordan

“The linen felt perilously thin between them, and she could feel the well-muscled contours of his chest and thighs and... and that obscene dagger…

— Glynnis Campbell

“It made her question why human beings always appeared to be coming along so nicely as a whole when the bottom would fall out…

— Eve Babitz

“She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“She untied her ropes, her frazzled oily grimy ropes that held her down into the littered marshlands of a life too long lived in…

— Ella M. Kaye