“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”

“I thought Bones looked like a little slice of heaven, but you're the whole cake, aren't you, sugar?”

“A slice of cake never made anyone fat. You don't eat the whole cake. You don't eat a cake every day of your life. You take the cake when it is offered because the cake is delicious. You have a slice of cake and what it reminds you of is someplace that's safe, uncomplicated, without stress. A cake is a party, a birthday, a wedding. A cake is what is served on the happiest days of your life.”

“Chloe, are you in the bathroom fucking that nice slice of man cake?”

“Destiny cutsthe cake of love,Three slices to some,To others, a crumb.”

“Mma Ramotsew accepted her large slice of cake and looked at the rich fruit within it. There were at least seven hundred calories in that, she thought, but it did not matter; she was a traditionally built lady and she did not have to worry about such things.”