Maggie

“Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.”
― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

“A book feels like a thing alive in this moment”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“This collusion represents a way for the ruling class to achieve through the economy what it could never achieve through the ballot box.”
― Ron DeSantis, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival – A Political Memoir of Winning Leadership and Conservative Governance

“Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place”
― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901