“A woman and a man are like the sheet and the quilt. Since we happen to be the quilts, we need to have clean sheets.”

“You never like it to happen, for something as hopeful and sudden as a January thaw to come to an end, but end it does, and then you want to have some quilts around.”

“The unfolding of a Spermatic Aura like a sheet in the Universe. That we are ~”

“It's like this old patchwork quilt my momma used to have...Each piece on that quilt meant something. And some of those pieces were the damn ugliest things you've ever seen...But some of the pieces were so beautiful they almost hurt my eyes to look at when I was a kid...That's the best you can hope for, Danny. That your life turns out like that patchwork quilt. That you can add some bright, sparkling pieces to the dirty, stained ones you have so far. That in the end, the bright patches might take up more space on your quilt than the dark ones.”

“...Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt.”

“Like the thick quilt I'd played under as a child, the dark felt familiar and protecting.”