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.
("These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901")
More Quotes from Nancy E. Turner:
Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.Nancy E. Turner
I must think about something else for a while. But then I remember his warn arms and his big strong legs touching mine and how hard and wide his chest was and how hot his kiss was, and I got outside and feed the chickens. They are getting mighty fat.
Nancy E. Turner
I can hardly wait to read it all. But it seems I don't have three minutes to rub together. Some time soon I will take it on, maybe when Charlie is a few months older.
Nancy E. Turner
My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.
Nancy E. Turner
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.
Nancy E. Turner
That man makes me feel like I have my bonnet on backwards.
Nancy E. Turner
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.Albert Ellis
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
Henri Bergson
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau