“It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.”

“Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.”

“It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.”

“It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.”

“One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.”

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”