Sandra Dallas Quotes

Now I am shut up with his mother on Bramble farm and she is no better for conversation than prune whip

Sandra Dallas

Will was dead, but Missouri Ann was going to have a baby. Birth and death were God's way, she told herself. Joy and sorrow were joined together.

Sandra Dallas

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

Sandra Dallas

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Sandra Dallas

Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it.

Sandra Dallas

She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

Sandra Dallas

Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.

Sandra Dallas

... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why,'says I, I've got prayers to sell.

Sandra Dallas

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

Sandra Dallas

You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.

Sandra Dallas

After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.

Sandra Dallas