Quotes by : Sue Miller

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.

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

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

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:....

...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.