“I might be 30 years old, but a girl never outgrows the need for her mother.”
“When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting. In fact, I’ve even read that knitting can lower stress more effectively than meditation.”
“The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations.” —Karen”
“The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations.” —Karen Alfke, “Unpattern” designer and knitting instructor LYDIA HOFFMAN”
“The repetition of weaving the yarn around a needle and then forming a stitch creates a sense of purpose, of achievement, of progress. When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting.”
“People who say they don’t have enough patience to knit are precisely those who could most improve their lives by learning how!” —Sally Melville,”
“Her case worker had once suggested knitting as a means of anger management.”
“It's strange how the people you care about least, sometimes know you the best. You let your guard down with them because you don't mind that they see you, warts and all.”
“No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.”
“If I ever have a baby, I’m going to have a Brazilian wax first. Keep it pretty, you know?”
“Honey, when you’ve got an eight-pound object coming out of your cooter, the last thing you’re going to care about is how it looks.”
“Sea lo que sea que hagas, será siempre una equivocación por un motivo u otro. Esa es la verdadera soledad.”
“Jenks’s wings tickled my neck, and I shivered.”
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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