Debbie Macomber · 416 pages
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“I might be 30 years old, but a girl never outgrows the need for her mother.”
― Debbie Macomber, quote from The Shop on Blossom Street
“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.”
― Debbie Macomber, quote from The Shop on Blossom Street
“The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations.” —Karen”
― Debbie Macomber, quote from The Shop on Blossom Street
“The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations.” —Karen Alfke, “Unpattern” designer and knitting instructor LYDIA HOFFMAN”
― Debbie Macomber, quote from The Shop on Blossom Street
“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.”
― Debbie Macomber, quote from The Shop on Blossom Street
“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,”
― Debbie Macomber, quote from The Shop on Blossom Street
“Her case worker had once suggested knitting as a means of anger management.”
― Debbie Macomber, quote from The Shop on Blossom Street
“En somme, chercher la vérité c'est passer de la vitrine d'une boutique à une autre.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, quote from Freedom from the Known
“Lynn pulled her own rifle into her lap, the cold metal bringing more comfort to her than Mother’s touch ever could. Her finger curled around the trigger, hugging it tight in the life-taking embrace that she’d learned so long ago. She slipped onto her belly beside Mother, watching the sunlight bounce off the twin barrels of their rifles. Waiting was always the worst part, the crack of the rifle a relief.”
― Mindy McGinnis, quote from Not a Drop to Drink
“I’m just saying that when there is little left to lose, the consequences of one’s actions don’t carry the same weight…painful or otherwise.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“our investigation led us to discover was that at the peak of the battle the Jewish soldiers owed their success less to their courage than to the sudden arrival of a most unusual ally: a swarm of bees, infuriated by the smell of gunpowder, descended on the helpless Arab legionnaires and forced them to abandon their dominating position above the monastery.”
― Larry Collins, quote from O Jerusalem
“I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.”
― Steven Pinker, quote from The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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