Unraveled Quotes

#1. But evidently it wasn't meant to be. When it unraveled, it unraveled in a hurry.

Joseph Teller

#2. What we weave in solitude is unraveled by the doorbell's ringing.

Mel Nicolai

#3. Three hundred pages of cotton-soft parchment, bound up with a green ribbon. Her writing gushed in watery ripples over the pages, penmanship that called to mind the maddest intricate Belgian lace. Wrought on a pin's head but stretching for miles if unraveled.

Lyndsay Faye

#4. I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. In the dark of the night, we're nothing but shadows. My feelings and thoughts are as tangled as unraveled yarn, loose ends and knots and bursts of violent color.

Delilah S. Dawson

#6. Security was a mirage; being
tied down hardly counted when the other end of the rope had unraveled.

Jodi Picoult

#7. She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

Jodi Picoult

#8. If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that would be us," I said. "Because it's a miracle that we're not complete nut jobs and mutant disasters.

James Patterson

#9. I picked at one of the buttons on my vest until the thread unraveled and it fell into my palm. Memo to self- buy a sewing kit to stitch my life back together.

Anita Higman

#10. The disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region.

Bernie Sanders

#11. He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

William Ellery Channing

#12. As America slept, our constitutional quilt was slowly being unraveled by special interest... I hope you like the cold.

A.J. Garces

#13. You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.

PJ Harvey

#14. That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

Edmund Burke

#15. Maybe someday, as the knots became unraveled, this moment would wrap around him, tying him to her. Or maybe her love would simply loosen the strings, freeing him to walk away.

Amy Harmon

#16. Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.

William O. Douglas

#17. A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces ... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

Diane Ackerman

#18. His soul's fabric was weaving itself with mine. I loved the frayed ends where it came unraveled, and I loved the strength at its firm, solid center.
I loved every thread.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#19. He'd had to fold his long legs into his desk. His boots had seen better days, and his jeans unraveled in a curiously irresistible way at the bottom. He didn't look like anyone I'd ever seen before. He reminded me of an actor in an old Western - Rock Hudson in Giant - all dark intensity.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#20. You really are becoming unraveled without me.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#21. nights?" Something unraveled in her heart, destroying the last of her defenses, the final shard of sanity she possessed. "Yes! It is, it is.

Eloisa James

#22. Most adults with ADD are struggling to express a part of themselves that often seems unraveled as they strive to join the thought behind unto the thought before.

Edward M. Hallowell

#23. I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe

Stephen Hawking

#24. With each daunting step, the armor I'd always worn like a protective cloak unraveled, and my footing faltered.

E.R. Pierce

#25. Maybe she was really good at improv. I couldn't be certain she was nineteen or that her name really was Nora Halliday. Maybe she was like one of those sweaters with an innocent little thread hanging off of it: One pull, the whole thing unraveled.

Marisha Pessl

#26. Medea is without words, without thought. She has unstrung the world, pulled some vital thread and unraveled all. Nothing to do now but hold her breath and find out whether a new world re-forms.

David Vann

#27. When your life comes unraveled, cast on and start over.

Connie Lane

#28. Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.

Geraldine Brooks

#29. This is how you unraveled me. Thread by thread. Until I was bare, Wearing nothing but my skin And my bones And my blood.

Autumn Doughton

#30. Mummies unraveled
and put on new wraps.
Spiders found corners
and spun silky traps.
Count Dracula grinned
and slicked back his hair.
Frankenstein's bride cried,
"I've nothing to wear!

Natasha Wing

#31. If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

Lloyd Alexander

#32. This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cores are revealed to all who count. And those who count are finally revealed to them. Just in time.

Cecelia Ahern

#33. She looked at her best friend as he unraveled the tightly wound cord from his heart and told her what she had been hoping to hear." from the upcoming The Witch of Belle Fleur

Isabelle Hardesty

#34. There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

Laura Wasser

#35. I was held together by one thread that was black and frayed, and the end of it was tied to Maggie. She had unwittingly pulled on it, loosening the already loose knitting until I was nothing more than a pile of tangled string, completely unraveled.

Ashlan Thomas

#36. And then he experienced an inexplicable confusion of thoughts, like a rosary of ideas comprised of diverse and ingenious beads that had unraveled and was now rattling around in his brain with no thread linking them, no coherence.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#37. We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.

Kenny Loggins

#38. Is equally young and foolish in the wide lens of history, and the arrogant denial of this is what unraveled the world.

Isaac Marion

#39. It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

Hugh Howey

#40. May the mysteries that confound you, be unraveled.

Eleesha

#41. Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Jonathan Swift

#42. I stared at them while my control unraveled. I wanted to throw them in the trash. I wanted to return them. I wanted to keep them. I was a mess of wants, none of which mattered, because she didn't want me.

Cora Carmack

#43. ... He who thought at last the books would tell him why people couldn't stay, and how their maps unraveled into ink-dissolving roads, while the sleepless boy and hall light stood watch...

Wyatt Prunty

#44. Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

Louise Erdrich

#45. I smiled and unraveled a plan that some strategic command at the back of my mind had been hatching while the woman in me made love to Rosetta Jeanette Lawson in the guise of a man.

Walter Mosley

#46. I'm afraid of
a lot of things,
but mostly,
most sincerely,
I am afraid of
being completely
unraveled by you,
and you finding nothing
you want in here.

L M Dorsey

#47. I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment ... at the moment, I may be coming a bit unraveled.

Courtney Milan

#48. In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

Curtis Hutson