“Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.”

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”

“Well, see, there's this cave in Switzerland I really need to find.' She slipped on her sunglasses; was already in the middle of the street when she turned and looked back at Hale and Gabrielle. 'You coming?”

“She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.”

“He frosted under heavy guard.”

“Beauty isn't made of sugar.”

“Beauty of the face is the outward charm of a human being, and the beauty of soul is his inner charm.”

“She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”

“Cuba became the sugar-producing and-exporting country par excellence; and if she did not develop even further in this respect, the reason is to be found in the capitalist contradictions which put a limit to a continuous expansion of the Cuban sugar industry, which depended almost entirely on North American capital.”

“Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.”