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.

There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

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

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

Things work out better when you're straight up.

...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

Single by choice, just not my choice.

The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered.

Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.