“We want. When we stop wanting, we feel dead and want to want more. (p.232)” — 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… — Sue Miller Best things Copy Share Image
“A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.” — Sue Miller Secret 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 Feeling Copy Share Image
“...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.” — Sue Miller Language Copy Share Image
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind. — Sue Miller Desperation 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… — Sue Miller Anger Copy Share Image
“her. “How do you always know that stuff?” she asked. “Are you kidding? Everyone knows that stuff.” He went back to the… — Sue Miller Know 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… — Sue Miller Disasters Copy Share Image
“I sometimes worried that the more instinctive forms of love were not so available to you. That easy maternal devotion, for instance,… — Sue Miller Love 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… — Sue Miller Grateful Copy Share Image
It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We… — Sue Miller Done Copy Share Image
“Do you remember when everyone thought Bush (sr) had a mistress too"" he asks in the course of a Clinton era conversation.… — Sue Miller Democrats Copy Share Image
“You might have thought I’d worry about him, about causing him pain or at least embarrassment. I simply didn’t. I felt the… — Sue Miller Empathy Copy Share Image
“My sister and I were the ones in the family who had seen this as necessary; neither of my brothers felt there… — Sue Miller Family Copy Share Image
And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it… — Sue Miller Blessed 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,… — Sue Miller Austerity 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… — Sue Miller Cry Copy Share Image
But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any… — Sue Miller About yourself 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,… — Sue Miller Secret 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… — Sue Miller Fate 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… — Sue Miller Death Copy Share Image
“...that she is beautiful, an impossible kind of beauty, composed of all the wrong elements: white hair, the flawless but deeply lined… — Sue Miller Beauty Copy Share Image
There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope. — Sue Miller Comforting 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… — Sue Miller Birth Copy Share Image
“This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The… — Sue Miller Feeling 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 tell. We… — Sue Miller Forgiveness 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… — Sue Miller Austerity 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as… — Sue Miller Contemporary Copy Share Image
“But then he returned and our life went on. Three days gone. A week. I measured the time in the faint waning… — Sue Miller Life 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 Dark hair 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 Dark hair Copy Share Image
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