“ After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass… Sandra Dallas
“ You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't. Sandra Dallas
“ ... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why,'says I, I've got prayers to sell. Sandra Dallas
“ Ned was always an admirer of sunrises. From his first days in the West when he was a runaway boy, he had been gladdened by the dawn over the prairie. He loved the beauty as the day began to break, the… Sandra Dallas
“ Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm. Sandra Dallas
“ You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift. Sandra Dallas
“ Now I am shut up with his mother on Bramble farm and she is no better for conversation than prune whip Sandra Dallas
“ Will was dead, but Missouri Ann was going to have a baby. Birth and death were God's way, she told herself. Joy and sorrow were joined together. Sandra Dallas
“ She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell. Sandra Dallas
