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I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.
— Ayana Mathis
Hattie's children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee.
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I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.
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It seems to me that everything is on its way to becoming something else, giving itself up in the service of another. In
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She wished the man outside really were Thomas, so she and Billups could again have the same enemy and the same fear.O
— Ayana Mathis
I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
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My God, but you are hard to love," Hattie
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Hattie was like a lake of smooth, silvered ice, under which nothing could be seen or known.
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Fine doesn't call before dawn.
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His pain was his most precious and secret possession, and Six held on to it as fiercely as a jewel robbed from a corpse.
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You ought to go now before she wakes up, Hattie said. She handed her daughter to Pearl. I'm in the floor, she thought.
— Ayana Mathis
I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.
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The Lord brings us into this world naked, but I don't suppose he means us to stay that way
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I try to look for the beauty in things.
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It seemed to him that he could never get a proper grip on any of the beauty in this world.
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The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.
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Somebody always wants something from me," she said in a near whisper. "They're eating me alive.
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It had been easy to be comfortable with each other when there was a glass wall between them.
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Pride brought down a lot of folks. One of these days you gon' have to turn around and look at whatever it is you running from.
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God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind.
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No one could tell her why things had turned out as they had, not August or the pastor or God himself.
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