“If she made a cake for him, she'd use salt in place of sugar-and lots of it.”
“Out of love I made you a cake. Also out of milk, eggs, flour, sugar, and vanilla.”
“What else? A handful of hard white sugar lumps from the supply for the master's table. Sugar and cake and blood and pork. That's what little boys are made of. ”
“She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it.”
“Sugar and salt and kicks and kisses.”
“Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.”