“My knitting is simple”, he said again. Ï can make anything you want with it, but it will always be simple.”

“hope could betray you—but if you had no hope, life could actuallysurprise you in the best of ways.”

“I was terrified of my weakness, of my sharp tongue, ofmy every flaw. I was terrified that this moment, my chance tolive in happiness for however short a time we may have had,would be ruined because I was simply not carved out of thesame wood as happiness, and that my grain was too twistedto ever take its form.”