“I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.”

“People shouldn't come expecting to see the Muppets because they are not here. This is something else.”

“I felt something shift to murder in me. I felt … that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw, and I liked it.”

“What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?”

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

“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?”

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

“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.”

“This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I’ll destroy it. Love me, I’ll destroy you. I have never felt deserving of anything in my life.”

“Maybe I should have killed four, five hundred people. Then I would have felt better. Then I would have felt like I really offered society something.”