... because I read about them. Anything I know about I've usually read, even a lot of what I know about trapping. I get a lot from books. - Kathleen Winter

She knew happiness was only one side of the coin and the coin was forever turning . . . Thomasina had every reason to be happy, but instead she held her heart at the same level she had always held it, because she did not trust extremes of feeling.

If a person knits as you speak of the past, you can become mesmerized. As the yarn unwinds from its skein your memories naturally unfold to their full length.

It was not fair, she felt, to treat people as if they were finished beings. Everyone was always becoming and unbecoming.