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

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.

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.

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

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.

Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,

To obey the principles of kingdom is to enjoy full and whole health

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

Almes never make poore.

The scoreline is a bit flattering really.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.

When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.