And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
“For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity.… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to… — Sue Miller Copy Share
And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would… — Sue Miller Copy Share
Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to… — Sue Miller Copy Share
“I tried to talk about it to Lily, to make her see that for once, I'd earned a feeling. [p. 174]” — Sue Miller Copy Share
“I was recalling that other world in which it had thrilled me, in a way, the surprise of thinking that I could be a… — Sue Miller Copy Share
“Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each other on… — Sue Miller Copy Share
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind. — Sue Miller Copy Share
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things… — Sue Miller Copy Share
“And then heard Detective Ryan’s pleased voice talking about Eli, about killers who’ve gone free: “They have to tell,” he’d said Well, apparently so.… — Sue Miller Copy Share
“But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded… — Sue Miller Copy Share
“Doggone, I never thought I’d lose my mind.” I was startled at the time to realize this – that he had thought about it.… — Sue Miller Copy Share
“The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice… — Sue Miller Copy Share
“You might have thought I’d worry about him, about causing him pain or at least embarrassment. I simply didn’t. I felt the kind of… — Sue Miller Copy Share
“My sister and I were the ones in the family who had seen this as necessary; neither of my brothers felt there was a… — Sue Miller Copy Share
“...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.” — Sue Miller Copy Share
