You’ll have lots of questions to answer as you get older. Who you are. Who you want to be. What you think about things. Like politics. And romances. And whether you’ll be able to speak out or keep your mouth shut. It’s always a challenge to work out the best way to live your life, and as much as everyone tells you what to do, ultimately how you do things is up to you.

Starting again: there’s a secret hope that makes you hold on, to dream that you’ll get it right someday, that you’ll go back and take it up again and it will finally come out right. That this time all the pieces will fit. The mistake is waiting until you feel renewed enough to give it another try. You simply have to pick up the needles and keep at it anyway.

Stress is not about the situation, my dear, it’s about the person. There’s some who can handle it and there’s some who can’t.

We don’t always get what we deserve,” she replied, patting James over his heart. “Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something.

You are made who you are by the bad stuff, the little things, as much as the great triumphs and big decisions.

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there’s no fire or burglar in sight.

But it’s better to loosen up as you go or you risk turning brittle.

And there’s always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we’ve got.

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

Knitting had done more than provide her with a living; it had soothed her soul through more struggles than she could count.