“As sure as the vine Twines 'round the stump You're my darling sugar lump.”

“An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.”

“I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and budAbout thee, as wild vines, about a tree...Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understoodI will not have my thoughts instead of theeWho art dearer, better!”

“Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm.”

“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. ”

“My dear soul, flee from the worthless,stay close only to those with a pure heart.Like attracts like.A crow will lead you to the graveyard,a parrot to a lump of sugar.”