“In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!”

“Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.”

“What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?”

“Where the blue of the night
Meets the gold of the day,
Someone waits for me.

And the gold of her hair
crowns the blue of her eyes
like a halo tenderly.”

“What's her name?"

"None of your business."

"That can't possibly be her name.”

“The first idea was not our own. Adam
In Eden was the father of Descartes
And eve made air the mirror of herself,

Of her sons and of her daughters.”

“They said it was the only way to stop her running up debts, but the best way to stop her running up debts was to give her more money.”

“Seems like even her old girlfriends
Might be talking her down.
She's got her name on the grapevine
Running up and down
The telephone line
Talking 'bout
Someone said, someone said
Something 'bout, something else
Someone might have said about her
She always figured that they were her friends
But maybe they can live without her.”

“When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.”

“If you can touch her heart without touching her, then you can melt her heart just by saying her name.”