“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
“She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface”
“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.”