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.

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

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.

Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be.

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

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.

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

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.

Your pain is your own until you put it to music, then it belongs to everyone. You'll find it lightens the load.

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.

To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.