“Blue Horse said to me... wisdom is not a path, it is a tree.” — Nancy E. Turner Journey Copy Share Image
How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever. — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green."Sarah Agnes Prine” — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“I rode toward Rudolfo Maldonado's house, planning to murder him before he got his morning shave.” — Nancy E. Turner Murder Copy Share Image
“Education doesn't keep a person from being a fool, and the lack of it doesn't keep a person from being intelligent.” — Nancy E. Turner Education Copy Share Image
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“Home at last, and my little ranch house looks mighty plain, but it is home to me and I am glad to… — Nancy E. Turner Home Copy Share Image
Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think. — Nancy E. Turner Cursing Copy Share Image
“A woman is a fool that lives from penny to farthing and n'er looks to the possibility of loss.” — Nancy E. Turner Fool Copy Share Image
“[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like… — Nancy E. Turner Child Copy Share Image
“I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is… — Nancy E. Turner Religion Copy Share Image
“I said, Well, looks like he's pretty ornery. I wonder where he gets it? "Jack just shrugged and kissed my cheek, and… — Nancy E. Turner Parenting Copy Share Image
“I must think about something else for a while. But then I remember his warn arms and his big strong legs touching… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“Goats are naught but bones and bleating, and their hair was not warm nor their bodies soft. Of course, there was the… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind,… — Nancy E. Turner Bird Copy Share Image
“I declare, it is like some other part of me made up some rules about happiness and I just went along with… — Nancy E. Turner Happiness Copy Share Image
“A woman who dreams of a good home with a man who holds for her only a poor love is putting a… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“My life is a tree and I can stay in one place and spread out in all directions, and I can do… — Nancy E. Turner Happiness Copy Share Image
“Well, there is rough old Albert, as ornery as any big brother a girl could have, putting his arm around Savannah and… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came… — Nancy E. Turner Belief Copy Share Image
“I can see being angry with folks. Shoot, I'd about hang Chess on the laundry line any day of the week, but… — Nancy E. Turner Angry Copy Share Image
“Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It's easy to act honorable… — Nancy E. Turner Hard time Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Faulkner had sidled up to me and said Good day, Mrs. Elliot? I just looked at her, and I saw in… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“I might like to have someone courting me. But it would have to be someone who is a square shooter and who… — Nancy E. Turner Courage Copy Share Image
“We attended church Sunday as a family, and it was an even balance as to who was harder to keep still, the… — Nancy E. Turner Family Copy Share Image
“It is an awful thing to look on such sad circumstance and not be able to shed a tear. It is not… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it's as if our lives stopped then and there. If I… — Nancy E. Turner Communication Copy Share Image
“It seems there is always a road with bends and forks to choose, and taking one path means you can never take… — Nancy E. Turner Art of life Copy Share Image
“I wondered someday if the devil might wake up and see he got the wrong girl, what will happen then?” — Nancy E. Turner Devil Copy Share Image