Spring Moon Quotes

“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.”
― Bette Bao Lord, Spring Moon: A Novel of China

“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.”
― Bette Bao Lord, Spring Moon: A Novel of China

“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