“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.”
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Nancy E. Turner is a renowned author born in 1953. Her works span a variety of genres, including historical novels, biographies, and children's literature. Turner is known for her in-depth historical research and rich imagination, often exploring the complexities of human nature and social changes in her works. more
“I won't go back to the darkness! I am going to live! Is it really so wrong of me to want to live?!”
“It brings me back to the moment, and I want to live the moment with everything I’ve got.”
“Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug.”
“..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people.”