Home > Topic > a melon
1 " A brain the size of a pea, cannot achieve what a brain the size of a melon can!! "
2 " You’re hurt.”“No. No, I’m fine. It’s not blood. The militiamen were adjusting Sir Lewis’s trebuchet, and there was a mishap. You took a melon for me.” She smiled, even though her lips trembled. "
― Tessa Dare , A Lady by Midnight (Spindle Cove, #3)
3 " No person is just one person. Everyone is a crate of fruits, a crate of mixed fruits. The apple in there may have worms, a peach may be mildewed, a banana may be too green, a pear may be in perfect ripeness, and a melon may have the sweetest smell. "
― Victor Robert Lee , Performance Anomalies
4 " The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of lightening storms sweeping across fields on summer nights) to elaborations on the value of man's having a life of his own, apart from whatever life he has with his family, a private life that no one knows anything about, " a place he can be himself without concern of disappointment or rejection" . "