“The railing of the balcony was cold but the blue-black night air was so warm in October, in Florida, it felt as if it could hold you, all that wetness like a blanket of kisses.”
“To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”
“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
“A blanket could be used to warn your enemy that you are coming—and that you are warm. Where’s the cold war when you need it? ”
“A blanket could be used to cure the common cold. I mean, come on it’s just common sense. A blanket is warm, and if a cold is what it’s named, then a blanket would transform a cold into some nameless nonentity. Take that, Louis Pasteur. ”
“Sleep would be so welcome.A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.”