“Our children weigh 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.”
― These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories
― These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories
“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.”
― Sarah's Quilt
― Sarah's Quilt
“A clock only turns one direction”
― Sarah's Quilt
― Sarah's Quilt
“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.”
― These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
― These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
“[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.”
― These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
― These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
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