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“When love slides into the edge of unconcern or vanishes in the cornfield of forgetfulness, our mind must loosen the knots that tie us to the barren fields of a lost past. ("The Internet rescue")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Among Violet's many useful skills was a vast knowledge of different types of knots. The particular knot she was using was called the Devil's Tongue. A group of female Finnish pirates invented it back in the fifteenth century, and named it the Devil's Tongue because it twisted this way and that, in the most complicated and eerie way.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“Knots were probably the earliest spells. . . I am convinced that if nobody had ever invented knots, nobody would ever have imagined magicians.”
― T.H. White

“But history is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe knot it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing. A cat’s cradle.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Embroidery is beautiful not only for what you see, but for all you don’t. From the back, it’s a messy map—absolute chaos, all switchbacks and starts. Knots upon knots, pulled with teeth and pricked fingers. Each one a prayer, on a string.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more. History should be a hammock for swinging and a game for playing, the way cats play. Claw it, chew it, rearrange it and at bedtime it's still a ball of string full of knots. Nobody should mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“It was no great surprise that the world felt as if it were in chains since they actually trawled the ocean floor and tied us up in easy knots.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“Shoelaces are just like nerves because they tie themselves in knots.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“His eyes were attracted by the pattern of the knots Tansy's restless fingers were weaving. They were complicated, strong-looking knots which fell apart at a single cunning jerk, reminding him of how Tansy had studied assiduously the cat's cradles of the Indians. It also recalled to his mind how knots are used by primitive people, to tie and loose the winds, to hold loved ones, to noose far-off enemies, to inhibit or free all manner of physical and physiological processes. And how the Fates weave destinies like threads. He found something very pleasing in the pattern of the knots and the rhythmic movements which produced them. They seemed to signify security. Until they fell apart.”
― Fritz Leiber, Dark Ladies: Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness

“Sometimes we’ll find ourselves tied up in knots, and we’ll need the prayer and help of others to undo those knots. Sometimes we’ll be the instruments of undoing.”
― Amber C. Haines and Seth Haines