Facing the Sun Quotes

“That's the thing with fences, though—where properties touch, only on person has to create a divide for both to feel the separation.”
― Janice Lynn Mather, Facing the Sun

“...through the windows, the day is gathering it's pinky-orange skirts together, and making room for the night.”
― Janice Lynn Mather, Facing the Sun

“I hear music coming from across. the way, music unlike anything I've heard before. Neither church music nor island music, it lacks drums but seems heavy and sticky and sweet, like guava duff sauce, sugar beaten and pearlized with fat, spun with jeweled fruit puree, laced with rum.”
― Janice Lynn Mather, Facing the Sun

“Written down, a poem becomes land, a thing that can be fenced off and taken away...Better for it to stay like water, free.”
― Janice Lynn Mather, Facing the Sun