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Quotes About Stitches

I was operated on facially so much when I was young, and I had massive amounts of stitches.
~ Trudie Styler
It's a small wound. All we have to do is stop the bleeding, clean it out and put a few stitches in." "But I've never had a chance to operate before. Which one is the scalpel? Is this one the scalpel?
~ Joseph Heller
The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor's sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery.
~ Charlie Puth
The troll language was very difficult to learn, bearing no relation to Njorden or any other language I had heard... As I learned more and more, I was reminded of times I had to pick out the stitches of a particularly complicated piece of sewing. One word might unravel a whole set of words, and then I'd come to a knot and have to begin all over again.
~ Edith Pattou
All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down for fear we guess At the hidden ugliness. Dusty voice that throbs with heat, Hoping with your steel-thin beat To put stitches in my mind, Make it tidy, make it kind, You shall not: I'll keep it free Though you turn earth, sky and sea To a patchwork quilt to keep Your mind snug and warm in sleep!
~ Edith Sitwell
knit and purl These stitches are the fundamentals of knitting and are the basis of every garment. The knit stitch is a series of flat, vertical loops that produces a knitted fabric face and the purl stitch is its reverse. One side is smooth, the other bumpy. Knit is what you show the world; purl is the soft, nubbly underside you keep close to the skin.
~ Kate Jacobs
Some guys can charm the stitches off a baseball.
~ Robert Crais
The union of their shared lives could be a masterpiece, even if the colors of one piece clashed with another, even if uneven stitches showed, even if, from time to time, they had to pick out seams, realign the pieces, and sew them back together again. It would not be perfect, but it could be beautiful, if they worked together and persevered.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.
~ Robert Brault
At the funeral my stitches were itching like crazy, but it didn't bother me much because I was like totally tripping on the codeine they'd prescribed for the pain. They cremated my mom and stuffed her ashes into a pine box and put an eight-by-ten photo next to it. In the photo she was wearing too much makeup and it made me want to smash it with my fist.
~ Adam Rapp
stitches the needle was making, Kate Starr
~ Fern Michaels
I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'
~ Mary Roach
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.
~ Anne Lamott
Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.
~ Kelly Asbury
If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the segments together.
~ Louis Menand
But, Mother, Katherine wouldn't care. And there'll be thousands of stitches in it." "And a thousand thoughts of love caught in the stitches, Grace.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick's Comedy Stop, so I was going to classes during the day, and then at night, I would be signing up on the lists.
~ Greg Fitzsimmons
She could feel her mind pulling loose like knitting, the neat stitches of her artificial days unravelling to become one mangled thread.
~ Frances Hardinge
Twelve men conducted the investigation, gathering as on a knitting-needle the accursed stitches of this complicated case all over Moscow.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Only because you're injured," she said, and kissed him again. He pulled her close. "How's this going to work with all these stitches? Do I have to keep standing?" "Well," whispered Rosa, "I suppose you could kneel." Yancy lifted her sundress. "You're the doctor.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I have a scar on my forehead. I was three years old, jumping on the bed with my brothers, and I fell off and hit my head on the dresser and cut it open, went to the hospital, got stitches, came home, went back on the bed, jumped with my brothers, fell again, and reopened the stitches.
~ Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Because Dirk is different. Dirk is missing the spark. Which means there's nothing holding him together but stitches.
~ Neal Shusterman
It was no surprise that her sewing was so uneven, for to make even stiches the seamstress herself had to be steady. Abigail tended to hunch over her patchwork, her fingers and thread a snarl, and sew a few stiches before abandoning it to look down the road towards the houses near the general store, or to get up for a drink of water.
~ Tracy Chevalier
I got more riches than you, fuck more bitches than you/ Only thing I haven't got is more, stitches than you/ Fuckin punk, you ain't a leader, what? Nobody followed you/ You was never shit, your mother shoulda swallowed you
~ Lamont Coleman