“He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves.”
― A Place of Greater Safety
― A Place of Greater Safety
“Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)”
― Cranford
― Cranford
“...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. Lace is a thing like hope. It lived, it survived, and it was desired for what it was not. If faith, as the nuns said, was the substance of things hoped for, then lace was the outline - the suggestion - of things not seen.”
― The Ruins of Lace
― The Ruins of Lace
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