{"author":"Nancy E. Turner","author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Nancy E. Turner","tags":["marriage","motherhood","wife","women"],"id":3109,"author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner"},{"text":"We are a noisy and blessed little family.","author":"Nancy E. Turner","tags":["family","happiness"],"id":24292,"author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nancy E. Turner","tags":["anger","dating","love","men"],"id":33945,"author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nancy E. Turner","tags":["daughter","death","mother","motherhood","understanding"],"id":62539,"author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nancy E. Turner","tags":["journal","thinking","writing"],"id":74974,"author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner"},{"text":"[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.","author":"Nancy E. Turner","tags":["children","death","play-therapy","therapy"],"id":113798,"author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner"},{"text":"I never miss Meeting now,' I said. 'Do not look surprised. I have sent many a prayer heavenward on your behalf. And your father is not home yet. Your uncle sails under more danger of his own making. There is more to living in a town than I knew when you were young. Things have happened. It is important to go and to give to the poor and to keep in good graces with all who know us.'But you always said to trust your own heart.'That is true, son. I do not do this for trickery but to make myself known. If people have your acquaintance and friendship, they are not so quick to believe falsity.","author":"Nancy E. Turner","tags":["acquaintance","community","friendship","support","togetherness"],"id":119175,"author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner"},{"text":"...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.","author":"Nancy E. Turner","tags":["fear","heartbreak","love","risk","trust"],"id":126433,"author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nancy E. Turner","tags":["life-and-living"],"id":128768,"author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nancy E. Turner","tags":["soulmates"],"id":130755,"author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}