Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

One can never had too many librarian friends.

Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.