Nancy E. Turner Quotes

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

I never miss Meeting now," I said. "Do not look surprised. I have sent many a prayer heavenward on your behalf. And your father is not home yet. Your uncle sails under more danger of his own making. T...

Was he he handsome?" she asked with a sly smirk."Very. He is still, I think.""The devil, they say, goes about in finery.""And if you believe Beelzebub is as cunning as he is attractive, then I think w...

Was he he handsome? she asked with a sly smirk.Very. He is still, I think.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking.

What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to...

At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.

Our children weigh hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank, and mor...

Don't leave me, Jack, I said. Not ever, he whispered back.

We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it's as if our lives stopped then and there. If I say anything to him about feeling lonesome, he goes outside and does some little chore. I can't...

But there is no easy way to mourn a child.

Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weigh hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at al...

I make believe all my dear ones are not gone, just out of my line of sight beyond some curtain or cluster of people, or tree

We move on like stone statues. I feel like my legs are made of wooden branches and my heart is a hard rock inside. For days I do not even tie up my hair and it flows around me like an Indian’s. I can’...

Remembered something Blue Horse said to me back before Gilbert was born. He said wisdom is not a path, it is a tree. At the time I was too busy to give it much thought, so I nodded politely but didn’t...

Well, there is rough old Albert, as ornery as any big brother a girl could have, putting his arm around Savannah and cooing to her like a repenting hound dog, and promising her she is not common nor s...

I think my Mama and Savannah must be special people in the Lord's eyes, as they have gone about doing generous and loving things without even a second thought. For me, it seems like the only thing tha...

I said, Well, looks like he's pretty ornery. I wonder where he gets it?Jack just shrugged and kissed my cheek, and then whispered in my ear, He gets it from his mother.