“She lifted her sewing and bit off the thread in the way women do to make your flesh crawl.”

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is thread, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.”

“Extending trust to those who have already proven themselves untrustworthy is a bit like cutting off the end of a rope and sewing it to the other end to make it longer.”

“She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.I do have a knack for finding great women.”

“Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences of the way in which she could make her life pleasant?”

“What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning.”