Home > Work > Spring Moon: A Novel of China
1 " Remember that we are not gods who can fashion events to our desires. We are mere mortals who must learn not to contend with life but to yield to it. "
― Bette Bao Lord , Spring Moon: A Novel of China
2 " The Hanlin named his granddaughter Lustrous Jade, for jade was the fairest of stones and possessed five virtues: charity, for its lustre; rectitude, for its translucence; wisdom, for its purity of sound when struck; equity, for its sharp edges that injure none; courage, for it can be broken but not bent. "
3 " If your heart did not break now and then, Spring Moon, how would you know it was there? Hearts break, then mend and break and mend again in a cycle without beginning, without end. As surely as dawn sows the evening, twilight sows the morn. "
