78 Quotes by Nancy E. Turner

It is strange to have this little girl who is my own flesh and blood and yet she seems so separate from me.

I would tear them apart with my bare hands to save my baby April. I wonder if all mothers feel this way. Suddenly I knew why it is so dangerous to mess with a bear with cubs or any wild animal with babies. I am part and parcel with them when it comes to that. Lord, there is a mountain lion side of me I never knew before.

It seems there is always a road with bends and forks to choose, and taking one path means you can never take another one. There’s no starting over nor undoing the steps I’ve taken.

I thought I was leading them, but the truth was, I was just following them, holding up a lantern.

A woman who dreams of a good home with a man who holds for her only a poor love is putting a $50 saddle on a $20 horse. She’d be far better off single than riding with him.

Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It’s easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult when the ground is dried and burned and people have connived to take even that from you. I’ll sell this place, or I’ll lose it. I’ll go on. People who don’t have hard times aren’t living.

It seems to me that any time there are men making a war, somewhere there are women and children at home waiting and worrying.

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.

I have named the star Jack’s Star. It is beautiful and bright and gives me joy when it is here and pain when it is not, and every year as Summer approaches I have seen it coming over the hills. I used to think that someday i will learn what educated people have called it and why it is only here sometimes, but now i think it wouldn’t matter. It is Jack’s Star, and they only have to ask and I will tell them it’s name. They will have to ask the star itself where it goes and why it is not content to stay.