“And suddenly...it made a kind of emotional sense that caused me to feel, instantly, how little sense my earlier...assumptions had made...And with that thought it was as though my father stepped forward to meet me as he had been in… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
“And suddenly it seemed utterly right to me that resistance had been his wish, his intention. It made a kind of emotional sense that caused me to feel, instantly, how little sense my earlier more or less unframed assumptions had… — 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
