Allison

“while we may be born into families, it doesn’t necessarily mean we belong to them.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Fabric" and "fabricate "share a common Latin root: fabrica "something skillfully produced". Text and textile are similarly related, from the verb texere, "to weave", which in turn derives...from the Indo-European word *teḱs̱  , meaning "to weave".  "Order" comes from the Latin word for setting the warp threads, [ordinare], as does the French word for computer, ordinateur. The French word metier, meaning "trade" or "craft" is also the word for "loom".  

Such associations aren't uniquely European.  In the K'iche' Mayan language, the terms for weaving designs and writing hieroglyphics both use the root tz'ibia.  The Sanskrit word sutra, which now refers to a literary aphorism or religious scripture, originally denoted "string" or "thread". The word tantra which refers to a Hindu or Buddhist religious text, is from the Sanskrit tantrum, meaning "warp" or "loom".  The Chinese word Zǔzhī” 组织 meaning "organization" or "arrange" is also the word for "weave", while Chéngjiù 成就 meaning "achievement" or "result" originally meant "twisting fibers together".  ”
― Virginia Postrel, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

“It was said that everyone had three fates, the one they were born with, the one they walked away from, and the one they made for themselves.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“You keep doin' what you doin' and the white man don't got to do it no more. He ain't got to sell you, or put you in a coal mine to own you. He'll own you just as is and he'll say, "You the one who did it." He'll say, "It's your fault.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing