The thing to do was to insult her or slap her or run her out into the night. She’d left him with all their children. She was holding another man’s baby in her arms. Anyone would agree that he ought to do something terrible to her, but she had been gone fifteen hours, and in that fifteen hours his life had crumbled like a lump of dry earth.
Ayana MathisShe didn’t know what to make of this sporadic urgency with him. It had confounded and humiliated her for the thirty years of their marriage. These endless pregnancies. And worse, her body’s insistence on a man who was the greatest mistake of her life.
Ayana MathisYou ought to go now before she wakes up,” Hattie said. She handed her daughter to Pearl. I’m in the floor, she thought.
Ayana MathisShe wished the man outside really were Thomas, so she and Billups could again have the same enemy and the same fear.O
Ayana MathisTag: alice-and-billups
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 MathisYou 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 MathisI 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 MathisI go above deck to watch the sky darken into twilight. It helps me remember that this strange place is still the earth, and I am still on it.
Ayana MathisI wonder if the brass understands that people are getting killed.
Ayana MathisBell lifted her hand to her chest. Her heart beat so quickly. She was floating out on a tide of agony, and soon she would be carried so far she'd never come back.
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