“I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.” — Sarah Miller Anastasia Copy Share Image
“Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained.” — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“I cross myself and close my eyes. Where we go next, we go together.” — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“I'd like to know how anyone can write the truth about us if we've never met.” — Sarah Miller Truth Copy Share Image
“A woman can resolve that, whatever happens, she will not speak till she can do it in a calm and gentle manner,” — Sarah Miller Calm Copy Share Image
“I don’t see how sugar could make that cornbread any sweeter than the prints of your hands already have.” — Sarah Miller Cornbread Copy Share Image
“We should be used to it," Tatiana reasons. "There have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.” — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.” — Sarah Miller Anastasia Copy Share Image
“Be thankful for what is given. Caroline heard the words in her mother’s voice. No matter if it is not enough, be… — Sarah Miller Mother Copy Share Image
“Why does everyone have to be so cool all the time? And also why do white people always have to act like… — Sarah Miller Black people Copy Share Image
“The pair of us are like salt and sugar: such different flavors, but so close in every other way you could never… — Sarah Miller Anastasia Copy Share Image
“All our luxuries won't keep some men from dying -- it can only be a matter of time until I see it… — Sarah Miller Death Copy Share Image
“If people would only do me justice that is all I ask, but it seems as if every word I have uttered… — Sarah Miller Bewildered Copy Share Image
“How many miles had they come? Less than halfway, and already Caroline had the sense that a separation such as this could… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“It was not a sack, but rather a circle of denim that would spread itself flat with the cord fully unlaced. Seven… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms… — Sarah Miller Anastasia Copy Share Image
“It's commonly believed that there's less pressure on a woman to be married these days than there used to be. If that's… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“Olga sits on the carpet in front of her shelves with stacks of books scattered around her, struggling to pick between her… — Sarah Miller Books Copy Share Image
“I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what… — Sarah Miller Anastasia Copy Share Image
“Like most girls, I want a lot. Fame and fortune. Equal rights. Shoes no one else has. But I'd trade all that… — Sarah Miller Equal rights Copy Share Image
“Check it out," Gideon says. "I prayed to god to send a sign that I wasn't going to get kicked out of… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“Though Wilder blamed her family’s departure from Kansas on “blasted politicians” ordering white squatters to vacate Osage lands, no such edict was… — Sarah Miller Family Copy Share Image
“Author’s Note Caroline is a marriage of fact and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s fiction. I have knowingly departed from Wilder’s version of events… — Sarah Miller Books Copy Share Image
“Incredible that the best route to winning friends is not necessarily kindness or flattery, but letting them know you won't tolerate their… — Sarah Miller Friend Copy Share Image
“When the windowpanes start to turn from black to gray, my sisters cradle themselves around me, rocking me like the sea until… — Sarah Miller Sisters Copy Share Image
“Behind every successful woman are several confused men who give her something to make fun of.” — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“it was as if she believed the special things they’d so enjoyed together should not be enjoyed apart.” — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“All her life she had longed to breach that pale and hazy boundary between enough and plenty.” — Sarah Miller Life Copy Share Image
“I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive.” — Sarah Miller Depression Copy Share Image
“we must all learn to do things we don’t want to do. You may be afraid, but you may not let your… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely… — Sarah Miller Anastasia Copy Share Image
“A woman can resolve that, whatever happens, she will not speak till she can do it in a calm and gentle manner,… — Sarah Miller Silence Copy Share Image
“How different it must feel to be a man: built solid through, with everything beneath the skin belonging solely to yourself. Did… — Sarah Miller Belonging Copy Share Image
