Quotes by : Sue Miller

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

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

But then he returned and our life went on. Three days gone. A week. I measured the time in the faint....

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

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

But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any....

People think they know what you're feeling. What you must be feeling. And because it's easier not to....

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....