Origami Quotes

“Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?”
― Rachel Caine, Black Dawn

“Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.”
― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing

“Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into a boat, a fish, a kimono, or any other extravagant vision. At other times it aches to return to its original folds. The paper begins to fray. It tires, rebels.”
― Tor Udall, A Thousand Paper Birds

“Tearing the paper means you've stopped believing in the infinite possibilities of a square.”
― Tor Udall, A Thousand Paper Birds

“And maybe one winter it will get too cold and I’ll forget about the summers we once shared. My family portrait might
fold in too, producing the same horrific effect as Jeremy’s: that I, all along, had another sibling who eclipsed and became me—a prosperous sibling, an imposturous sibling, who outgrew a sense of time and place in which the three of us were everything to one another. Then only my blood in the sea could unfold and lead me back out of the origami.”
― Nicholaus Patnaude, First Aide Medicine

“A master of origami said he tried to express with paper the joy of life, and the last thought before a man dies.”
― Tor Udall, A Thousand Paper Birds

“I hate when I'm not done with my cup but my mom decides to put it in the dishwasher anyway and the cup isn't dishwasher safe. I keep telling my mom that my origami coffee mugs are hand wash ONLY. Handshakes are also hand wash only.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz”
― Karen Quan, liQUID PROse QUOtes

“My eyes roved over the walls covered with my collages and prints of famous paintings. Magritte, Kandinsky, Kahlo. My origami shapes hung from fishing wire, dangling over my bed. They shivered in the slight breeze blowing through my open window. It was my own little escape pod, but none of it was enough tonight.”
― Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There

“But when I reached Xocolatl, my heart beating ferociously, I found the display window brightly lit, with fairy lights on the window-ledge and along the shelves of chocolates. Cellophane-wrapped and gleaming like a pirate's buried treasure, they seemed to glow with a precious light, those gilded piles of mendiants, and truffles, rose creams and santons de Margot, while above them rose the centerpiece; a statuette of the Bonne Mère, much larger than the ones in the shop, one hand raised in benediction, the other holding the infant Christ, and robed in darkest chocolate. And all around the dishes and jars were origami animals; little angular butterflies and cranes and fish and rabbits in multicolored paper. I detected the hand of Grandmother Li: imagined those clever old hands at work, folding the pretty papers.”
― Joanne Harris, Vianne

“An important life lesson that we can learn through origami is that our actions can never be fully undone or reversed. One of the best parts of making origami is that if you make a mistake, you can just unfold the paper & try again.”
― Nancy Lavoie

“If your DNA was straightened out & placed end-to-end, it would stretch to Jupiter & back ten times over. Don't ever think you're small or insignificant. You're just very well folded.”
― Nancy Lavoie