Quotes About Quilted

He feared that beyond the quilted gray satin of the undertaker's keep there was only a world of mystery that bypassed the comprehension of men and did not even take them into consideration. A world of utter darkness and the profoundest of silences.

toward the quilted hamper, unzipped it, and then paused, a single wax-paper-wrapped sandwich in her hand. "Our food will be full of sand," she said, "with this wind." And her husband said, "Well, they are sandwiches," and winked at Michael, who seemed suddenly to recognize his father again.

soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Home is the hanky-panky of memory - honeyed, quilted - a fabulous once-upon-a-time lull.

The offices were like a national holding center for the trainably banal, occupied by people who decorated their cubicles with quilted, heart-shaped picture frames and those tiny plush bears with the fierce spring grip that cling to lamps and computer terminals, personalized to read "Terri's bear" or "I wuv you very beary much!

Heavy clouds quilted the world as Ethan turned off the Honda.