You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.

September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.

A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.

Why should I care about you first kiss, ' he said. 'You can kiss anyone you like. But sometimes if you wanted to kiss me, that would be all right, too.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Remember the son of whom you are because a good name is better than gold or silver

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true

It is horrid to smirk.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.