“A stitch in five saves fifteen or whatever - Another re-evaluation by Karl of the phrase 'A stitch in time saves nine”

“6291. A Stitch in Time
May save nine.”

“With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread—
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the “Song of the Shirt.””

“Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.”

“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ”

“You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”

“Hugh should’ve brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold.”

“Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

“[W]hen I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave its mark — on both of you. I'm not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own.”