“But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.”

“Life’s pretty friggin’ mean most of the time. People got real problems and real shit to cry about, but this isn’t it. This is the good stuff, and I’ve been kicked by life one too many times to just ignore it when something sweet falls in my lap.”

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”

“ It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.”

“Paranoia seems more reasonable when you've got twelve stitches in your side.”

“I have a real problem keeping friends. I'm always running out of space in my freezer.”