Contemporary Quote by Sue Miller

It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to…

— Sue Miller

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

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

“I tried to talk about it to Lily, to make her see that for once, I'd earned a feeling. [p. 174]”

— Sue Miller

“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

“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

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

— Sue Miller

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

“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

“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

“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

“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