“My sister and I were the ones in the family who had seen this as necessary; neither of my brothers felt there… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
“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… — 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… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
“Abruptly, they seemed alike to me and equally dear: my father, my son. I felt as though my father had been waiting… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind. — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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