Eudine did not reply. She was indecipherable, so ageless and immaculate. Her eyes were the same caramel shade as her skin. Her face was a placid lake, such depths. A woman with a face like that could be a confessor, could be told anything, no matter how awful, and remain steady as granite.
Ayana MathisGod doesn't come to sit on the porch and sip lemonade. He comes to take over.
Ayana MathisAll of them -- Hattie and Willie and Evelyn and even ruined, crazy Walter -- were little lights; sparks flying upward in dark places, trying to stay alight though they were compelled toward ash. They were nearly extinguished one moment, then orange and luminous the next.
Ayana MathisIt had been easy to be comfortable with each other when there was a glass wall between them.
Ayana MathisHattie was like a lake of smooth, silvered ice, under which nothing could be seen or known.
Ayana MathisIn 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 MathisI couldn't stand to be a fool a second time,' Hattie said. 'I couldn't stand it.
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