Yarn Quotes
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I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes. Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need. Two or three. I need a good tale. Of love and betrayal. Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily. Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands. And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me. The right...
John Lithgow
Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.
Elizabeth Moon
Askerlerin kannda bulunan stn disiplin dncesi, doruluk yetkesini saptrmaya yetmez mi? Disiplin demek boyun eme demektir. Ordunun onurundan sz ediliyor bize, onu sevmemiz, ona sayg gstermemiz isteniyor. Evet hi kukusuz, ilk tehditte ayaa kalkacak, Fransz topran savunacak olan ordu tm halktr, ona ancak sevgi ve sayg duyarz. Ama sz konusu o deil, biz de adalet gereksinimimiz iinde onun saygn kalmasn istiyoruz. Belki de yarn bizim elimize verecekleri kl szkonusu, o efendi sz konusu. Klcn kabzasn,...
Emile Zola
How fabulous down was for those first minutes! Down, down, down I'd go until down too became impossible and punishing and so relentless that I'd pray for the trail to go back up. Going down, I realized was like taking hold of the loose strand of yarn on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained...
Cheryl Strayed