“In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done”
“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
“I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.”
“There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.”
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”
“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”