“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
“In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done”
“She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it.”
“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”
“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'.”
“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.”