How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever. — Nancy E. Turner Forever Copy Share Image
Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind. — Nancy E. Turner Bed Copy Share Image
Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think. — Nancy E. Turner Cursing Copy Share Image
“hard work is still peace compared to what can worry a person on the inside.” — Nancy E. Turner Hard work Copy Share Image
How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time? — Nancy E. Turner Feel 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
“It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green."Sarah Agnes Prine” — Nancy E. Turner Honorable 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
“I wish the Lord would just knock me over with kindness and goodness and simple purity, because I don't seem to be… — Nancy E. Turner Kindness Copy Share Image
My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always… — Nancy E. Turner Blow 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 Copy Share Image
“It's not fair, men get to go off and chase around the country and get medals for doing stupid things and women… — Nancy E. Turner Feminism 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 Bigger 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 Bath 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 Chickens 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 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
“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 Goats Copy Share Image
“I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and… — Nancy E. Turner Friends 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
“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 Brother 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
“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
“I have named the star Jack's Star. It is beautiful and bright and gives me joy when it is here and pain… — Nancy E. Turner Educated people Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the… — Nancy E. Turner Blow Copy Share Image
“I have been sad almost a whole year, thinking that taking that test was somehow the end of my learning and that… — Nancy E. Turner Life Copy Share Image
“How could I explain to a beautiful lady in a silk dress that when I picked up her baby girl, I felt… — Nancy E. Turner Beautiful lady 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
“At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through… — Nancy E. Turner Every second Copy Share Image
“Well, he perked right up and said, Five hundred dollars? Mrs. Elliot, I believe we can be of service to you after… — Nancy E. Turner Money Copy Share Image
“One thing I'd learned from all the burying I'd attended was that sometimes it's hard to pay attention. Burying someone you know… — Nancy E. Turner Burying Copy Share Image
“I think my Mama and Savannah must be special people in the Lord's eyes, as they have gone about doing generous and… — Nancy E. Turner Inspirational Copy Share Image
“It is a hard thing to let your children near danger, and yet, I remember my Papa teaching me to fire a… — Nancy E. Turner Children Copy Share Image
“I can hardly wait to read it all. But it seems I don't have three minutes to rub together. Some time soon… — Nancy E. Turner Soon Copy Share Image
