"A Spool of Blue Thread" Quotes
"A Spool of Blue Thread" follows the Whitshank family as they navigate the complexities of love, relationships, and the passage of time in their Baltimore home.
fiction | 358 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
It's amazing, the way one can get so involved in a book, so carried away, really, that one forgets where one is.
But it's what we do. It's what people do. They stay alive for each other.
Maybe you never outgrow the feeling of being altered by your childhood; and maybe that's a good thing.
It's the cumulative effect that one's looking for, I think.
But then, that's the way life is, isn't it? You just keep plugging away, and then something good happens by and by.
You don't have to understand every single word in a book in order to enjoy it. Just as you don't have to understand every single ingredient in order to enjoy your dinner.
Once you start doing things you don't really want to do, the next step you know, you're saying things you don't really mean.
I believe in second chances. I believe in third and fourth and fifth chances. Sometimes, you just have to be patient.
People always say how wonderful it must be to have sisters, but I wouldn't know about that.
It's all in the way you tell the tale.
