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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. — Ayana Mathis

You act like your whole life was one long January afternoon." Lawrence said. "It wouldn't do any good to go around with my head in the clouds. — Ayana Mathis

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people. — Ayana Mathis

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. — Ayana Mathis

She had her nose so high in the air she could smell the birds farting. — Ayana Mathis

I wonder if the brass understands that people are getting killed. — Ayana Mathis

It seems to me that everything is on its way to becoming something else, giving itself up in the service of another. In — Ayana Mathis

Some things you can't apologize for, you just have to try to get around them," Hattie replied. "For your own sake too, so you can have a little peace. — Ayana Mathis

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 she's really finished with me this time. I'll never be finished with her. — Ayana Mathis

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access. — Ayana Mathis

My God, but you are hard to love," Hattie — Ayana Mathis

It was important to do what needed doing, no matter the day or the circumstance. — Ayana Mathis

Hattie was like a lake of smooth, silvered ice, under which nothing could be seen or known. — Ayana Mathis

Fine doesn't call before dawn. — Ayana Mathis

Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful. I don't reckon you got no place like that. — Ayana Mathis

Maybe we have only a finite amount of love to give. We're born with our portion, and if we love and are not loved enough in return, it's depleted. — Ayana Mathis

His pain was his most precious and secret possession, and Six held on to it as fiercely as a jewel robbed from a corpse. — Ayana Mathis

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. — Ayana Mathis

One thing I am learning is to slow down. Multitasking is great, but I when try to do everything at warp speed I just end up with typos and stress. — Ayana Mathis

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow. — Ayana Mathis

I couldn't stand to be a fool a second time,' Hattie said. 'I couldn't stand it. — Ayana Mathis

The Lord brings us into this world naked, but I don't suppose he means us to stay that way — Ayana Mathis

In Georgia, there was a eucalyptus tree in the wood across from Hattie's house, but the plant had been hard to come by in the Philadelphia winter. — Ayana Mathis

I try to look for the beauty in things. — Ayana Mathis

It seemed to him that he could never get a proper grip on any of the beauty in this world. — Ayana Mathis

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem. — Ayana Mathis

Six understood in that instant that he had something the ministers wanted and it had given him power among them. He had never been powerful among men. — Ayana Mathis

Somebody always wants something from me," she said in a near whisper. "They're eating me alive. — Ayana Mathis

It had been easy to be comfortable with each other when there was a glass wall between them. — Ayana Mathis

The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else! — Ayana Mathis

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. — Ayana Mathis

God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind. — Ayana Mathis

No one could tell her why things had turned out as they had, not August or the pastor or God himself. — Ayana Mathis

At last, her mother and sisters exited the station and came to stand next to her. "Mama," Hattie said. "I'll never go back. Never. — Ayana Mathis

God doesn't come to sit on the porch and sip lemonade. He comes to take over. — Ayana Mathis