“You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit.”

“Son, suppose you tend to your knitting and I tend to mine.”

“I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.”

“You must be patient before you criticize.”

“There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.”

“I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.”

“How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave.”

“You just stay patient, that's all.”

“To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.”

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”