My Name is Resolute Quotes

“Never forget, either of you, that there is always something greater than yourselves at work in the world. Look for it. Seek the whole truth, rather than letting the wind blow you as it will.”
― Nancy E. Turner, My Name Is Resolute

“...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, My Name is Resolute

“A woman is a fool that lives from penny to farthing and n'er looks to the possibility of loss.”
― Nancy E. Turner, My Name is Resolute

“A week later, I walked to Gwyneth’s house. She and Dorothy and I shared tea and we wept for Jacob. We talked. We smiled a little. Then I left and waited for Cullah, and thought what a great emptiness was left by Jacob’s passing. At last, I sat at the front door, on the chair where Patience had died. I held my hands folded at my heart, and ached for all who had passed from my world”
― Nancy E. Turner, My Name is Resolute

“I never want to be in a place where no one would come forward to say to a judge that they have known me as righteous. A life well-lived, in some respects, needs witnesses”
― Nancy E. Turner, My Name is Resolute

“A lad who wears his every thought upon his face is asking for someone to change his opinions.”
― Nancy E. Turner, My Name Is Resolute

“Life is short and must be lived.”
― Nancy E. Turner, My Name Is Resolute

“I wondered someday if the devil might wake up and see he got the wrong girl, what will happen then?”
― Nancy E. Turner, My Name is Resolute

“Goats are naught but bones and bleating, and their hair was not warm nor their bodies soft. Of course, there was the smell, too, bitter as overripe vinegar, intrusive as bile.”
― Nancy E. Turner, My Name Is Resolute