“The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.”

“Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.”

“There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom.”

“Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.”

“So swift was the motion that her bedroom slippers were left standing on the stepladder rungs.”

“That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.”