Quotes by : Sue Miller

And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering....

The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal....

This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity.....

For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives.....

I was recalling that other world in which it had thrilled me, in a way, the surprise of thinking that....

A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.

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

And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind....

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses....

And then heard Detective Ryan’s pleased voice talking about Eli, about killers who’ve gone free:....