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We are a noisy and blessed little family

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Family Happiness

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Children Death Play Therapy Therapy

Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.

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Nancy E. Turner Daughter Death Mother Motherhood Understanding

We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it's as if our lives stopped then and there. If I say anything to him about feeling lonesome, he goes outside and does some little chore. I can't tell if he is secretly blaming me, or himself, or just too full of pain to talk. That was the one thing we could always do together. I wish for the old days. I wish for the struggling days and the days of Geronimo, and the days of birthing Charlie with no one but Jack to help me. How happy and in love we were then. I want to be in love again, but all I feel is darkness and shadows. Everything is changed and different

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Nancy E. Turner Communication Death Depression Life Loneliness Marriage Sadness

It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything else. I know all these pepole are so busy because they love each other and me. We are a noisy crowd of love

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Nancy E. Turner Journal Thinking Writing

One thing I know from living with Jack is that war, any war, stains a man deep, and nothing can get the stain out. They can wear clothes like a rancher or a banker, but the stains are under there, never far from the surface of their skin.

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Nancy E. Turner War

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

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Nancy E. Turner Marriage Motherhood Wife Women

I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Friends Support Talking Women

I think my Mama and Savannah must be special people in the Lord's eyes, as they have gone about doing generous and loving things without even a second thought. For me, it seems like the only thing that comes natural is aggravation and hard word

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Inspirational Women

Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.

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Nancy E. Turner Children

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.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Hardship Living Perseverance

At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Life And Living

...we named her Dorothy Ann. Dolly, for short. I kissed her warily, fearful of the pain of loving her, love her, though love her I did; fearful lest she hurt me by dying.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Fear Heartbreak Love Risk Trust

And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with.

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Nancy E. Turner Anger Dating Love Men

Well, there is rough old Albert, as ornery as any big brother a girl could have, putting his arm around Savannah and cooing to her like a repenting hound dog, and promising her she is not common nor shameful. I watched all this and thought you just never know sometimes what's in a man's heart. When you think he is all tough nails and boards he can be different on the inside. It makes me wonder about other men I know, too.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Brother Emotions Men

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

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Nancy E. Turner Bondage Captive Captivity Poor Poverty Slave Slavery

I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Character Evil Good Hardship Mean

Was he he handsome? she asked with a sly smirk.Very. He is still, I think.The devil, they say, goes about in finery.And if you believe Beelzebub is as cunning as he is attractive, then I think we have found him.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Attractive Beelzebub Cunning Devil Evil Hideous Beauty Wicked

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

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Nancy E. Turner Age Conflicting Old Young

I asked Mama was it a sin to do what I done, and she said no, it was the same as David slaying Goliath, it was only to save Ulyssa and the others, not because of meanness that I did it. I would do it again, too. I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed.

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Nancy E. Turner Guilt Self Defense

What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch--that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Baths Blessings Thankful

Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Contentment Life

I might like to have someone courting me. But it would have to be someone who is a square shooter and who has a train load of courage. And it would have to be someone who doesn't have to talk down to folks to feel good, or to tell a person they are worthless ifthey just made a mistake. And he'd have to be not too thin. Why, I remember hugging [my brother] Ernest was like warpping your arms around a fence post,and I love Ernest, but I want a man who can hold me down in a wind. Maybe he'd have to be pretty stubborn. I don't have any use for a man that isn't stubborn. Likely a stubborn fellow will stay with you through thick and thin, and a spineless one will take off, or let his heart wander.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner Soulmates
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