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 Baths 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
“Our children weigh hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up… — Nancy E. Turner Children 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
“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
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
“I rode toward Rudolfo Maldonado's house, planning to murder him before he got his morning shave.” — Nancy E. Turner 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
“Low down dirty ornery rotten skunk of a cussed mule-headed soldier! What's he want with my book anyway? And what kind of… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever. — Nancy E. Turner Forever 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 Neighbors and friends 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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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 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
“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 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 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 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
