“Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.”
“Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.”
“The gloves of memory make the hands unafraid.”
“Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.”
“By a simple show of hands, who here is wearing gloves?”