Susan

“I feel that weaving is a precise metaphor for the way in which life is made,” she said. “By which I mean individually constructed. Any strand can be woven in at the dictation of the imagination. I think of the philosophy of history as a loom of that sort. It is, isn’t it?”
― Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time

“I’d like to go to all the knitting shops,” Doria said. “I want to see some rustic, hand-pulled yarn. I would also like to see some colonial fabrics, and, if possible, I would like to have some contact with a loom.”
― Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time

“angle of repose,” which means the angle at which dirt and pebbles stop rolling.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“I’d heard that they were going to stop teaching cursive in schools, which was fine with me, because then all us old people would have a secret code.”
― Craig Johnson, Next to Last Stand