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.

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.

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

No one will give a damn about you and your excellence unless you give a damn about yourself.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

All dread those things they don't understand.

Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.