Watermelon Quotes

“The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)”

“It's a wonderful fantasy, but it's not real. It's just watermelon magic.”

“There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.”

“Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon.”

“You're going to have a watermelon come out of your flap-jack and that shit will never be the same. Never. - Madison”

“When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.”

“In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital. Sometimes it's easier that way. Because although there was little I could do about the huge hole, it was within my power to empty an asthray.”

“He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.”

“He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?”

“No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.”