But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps,… — 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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