The Shop On Blossom Street Quotes
"If you can knit, purl and follow instructions, you can make anything." —Linda Johnson, Linda’s Knit ‘N’ Stitch, Silverdale, Washington
"Of all the compensations, the one I’m most grateful for is that while undergoing treatment I learned to knit."
"I don’t take anything, least of all life itself, for granted."
"I’ve survived both bouts of cancer, and I’m definitely not the carefree girl I once was."
"Hope to a person with cancer—or to a person who’s had cancer—is more potent than any drug."
"I’m so grateful not to know what the future holds."
"Without my father I’m convinced I would have."
"My dad claimed I achieved a certain calm wisdom, and I suppose I have."
"I felt as if I was just starting my life and in more ways than I care to count, I actually was."
"Often the change in attitude is immediate, and I know it won't be long before the relationship that once seemed so promising falls apart and dies. And with it my hopes for what women have always cherished—a husband and children. A family of my own."
"If I’m going to wallow in self-pity I want to make sure I’ve got an Eric Clapton CD playing and a sad movie or two in reserve. Ice cream is always a help, but only if it’s a really bad case."
"I don’t want to risk falling in love when in all likelihood the relationship will end."
"The pain of Reese’s betrayal cut deep, but Jacqueline was mature enough not to dwell on such unpleasantness."
"Frankly she’d come to look upon sex as an intrusion. All that sweating and heaving and grinding while she did her best to pretend she was interested—it was just plain silly."
"As if I didn’t already know that. I wondered where he’d left his truck and supposed it must be quite a distance away."
"It’s amazing what doctors can do these days."
"I’d like you all to choose your yarn now, if you would."
"I’m not sure why, but for the first time in months I feel really good about all of this."
"I’ve been asked to work on the cookbook committee," Tammie Lee gushed as if this was the greatest compliment of her life. "I can’t tell you the number of times someone’s asked me to share my mama’s, Aunt Thelma’s, and Aunt Frieda’s favorite recipes."
"This is the recipe you’re submitting to the Seattle Country Club Cookbook?" Jacqueline was convinced she’d never be able to show her face in public again.
"Paul loves my hush puppies," Tammie Lee twanged in her eagerness to continue.
"I declare I don’t know any couple happier than Paul and me," Tammie Lee drawled.
"You couldn’t do it, could you?" Her words were weighted with bitterness. "You can’t let a day pass without being the center of attention, can you?"
"It’s time you grew up and became an adult, Lydia. In fact, it’s long past time you accepted responsibility for your own life."
"I remember when Matt and Margaret first started dating. Because she’s five years older than me, I viewed seventeen-year-old Matt as mature and sophisticated, a man of the world."
"I don’t think I ever loved you more than I did that day."
"Then there were the so-called friends who dismissed their difficulties, who trivialized her desire for a child."
"I’m almost half done with the second baby blanket. I have another class tomorrow afternoon."
"What are you doing here?" she asked, making sure he knew she wasn’t pleased to see him.
"Actually, I came in looking for you." He folded his arms over the top of the chair and leaned toward her.
"It’s the truth. You can talk to Danny. I went into the store and asked him if he knew where I could find you."
"I thought I’d buy you a cup of coffee. Are you always this difficult?"
"So this I-don’t-give-a-damn attitude is for my benefit?"
"I haven’t seen you around lately," she said casually.
"Are you implying you missed me? I thought a lot about you while I was away, you know."
"I crossed the law and the law won," she said, finishing the row and paying less attention to the stitches than she should.
"But it was a bogus rap and the judge knew it. I got community service instead of jail time. Does that shock a good boy like you?"
"I could eat," she said which wasn’t the most gracious statement she’d ever made.
"We’re in luck," he said as he set everything down on the small round table. "They only had two left."
"I was running a youth retreat at Warm Beach."
"Remember sixth grade at Jackson Elementary? It took me a while to make the connection myself."
"With a little practice and patience, our hands learn to knit, then our minds are free to enjoy the process."
"Handknitting is a soothing and comforting means of creative expression that can result in a warm, useful and lovingly knitted garment…what a bonus."
"Before I could change my mind, I punched out her telephone number."
"It’s a cool sweater, Aunt Lydia. I love the colors."
"I make my own decisions about the men I date."
"Because I feel diet is so important in maintaining a healthy body, I avoid processed foods as much as possible."
"Preoccupation was the key to forgetting that her husband would be spending part of the night with another woman."
"The love of their early years…She never allowed herself to acknowledge the isolation they’d forced upon each other."
"It happened to many couples—she’d heard enough veiled hints and outright confessions from other women to be aware of that."
"This time she’d have her baby. This time at least one of the fertilized eggs implanted in her womb would take hold—and she’d keep the pregnancy."
"Thinking positive had grown more difficult by the second day."
"People who say they don’t have enough patience to knit are precisely those who could most improve their lives by learning how!"
"I wanted to help people discover the same sense of satisfaction and pride that I feel when I finish a project for someone I love."
"My father refused to let me give up, and when I discovered knitting, I felt like I’d found the Holy Grail because it was something I could do by myself."
"I’m fine, really." I tried to laugh but it sounded phony.
"Despite her determination to remain calm, she gasped."
"Well, there was nothing Jacqueline could do about it."
"It was the most honest thing anyone had ever said to him."
"How dare Reese say such things to her—especially when she’d been doing him a favor!"
"I think I’m the most blessed woman in the world."
"Whatever real love they’d once shared was dead."
"I’m too upset with him to knit him anything."
"It’s the only time I can remember hearing my daddy holler at Mama."
"His yelling was a sign of how much he loved her."
"I don’t think I’ve ever felt anything more than a…kiss."
"It’s a case of me running over the mailbox with the tractor."
"I didn’t even see him. It was for routine blood tests."
"In knitting, as in everything else, you learn as much from your mistakes as you do from your successes."
"This is my life. It isn’t up to me to solve your problems for you."
"But there’s today and tomorrow and the next day."
"Women. Can’t live with 'em, can't understand 'em, but they sure as hell make life interesting, don’t they?"
"I want to be with you more and more. You’re the first thing I think of when I wake in the morning and the last thing on my mind at night."
"I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m exhausted," Jacqueline said. "I just might let you two carry on without me."
"You’re going to be all right," she kept repeating. "Oh, Lydia, you’re going to be all right."
"Knitting is a haven, a safe place where one can touch history, dance with art and create a peaceful life." —Nancy Bush, author of Folk Socks
"I want us to stay married, but I can’t live like this anymore."
"I can’t make you any promises," he continued, "but I can tell you that I care for you a great deal."
"I don’t think it’s possible to give a baby too much love."
"I had no idea I was going to love her so much."
"Amelia’s the most incredible baby in the universe."
"It’s over. I want that understood here and now. I won’t put up with this any longer."
"I won’t allow our grandchildren to grow up seeing me treated with that kind of disrespect."
"I promise I’ll be all the woman you’ll ever need."
"I love you. I’ve always loved you, but I didn’t know how to make things different."