“Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon”
“That night Flora wanted to eat watermelon.”
“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
“In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done”
“But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.”
“You say tomato, I saw watermelon.”