Ann Turner > Quotes

“But now you can't find me or reach me or hurt me ever again and once I tell the words I am going to kick you off my porch and learn to breathe again.”
― Ann turner

“I have a knife in my hand, slicing beef on the willowware plate, and I cut harder, faster, thinking it is your pink neck under my blade and I am cutting you into little pieces that I will bury in the meadow outside when there is no moon.”
― Ann Turner, Learning to Swim

“At night I dream of swimming, my arms move smoothly through the water it is so easy, so calm.”
― Ann Turner, Learning to Swim

“If Gran, Da, and Gil were alive, they were alive inside her: when Da told her how to scythe, when Gran praised her for gathering herbs, when Gil said, “I like beginnings.”
― Ann Turner, The Way Home

“A dove’s call echoed like a bell as her feet drummed on the road.”
― Ann Turner, The Way Home