“To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."[From a letter to George Lyttelton]”

“It doesn't matter where the story comes from, it matters where it takes you.”

“I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down. ”

“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”

“When you knit, if you get something wrong and keep knitting, then when you discover it, you have to rip out all those rows of stitching to go back and fix it, Life is like that. Sometimes, it has to rip out all the stitches to go back and fix what's wrong.”

“I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.”