... everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit." ~ Georgia "The Friday Night Knitting Club

Things work out better when you're straight up.

So this was it. You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday's underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how to knit. And even that doesn't work. She never expected it to be so hard. Life.

There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.

There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day.