Sue Miller Quotes

“The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“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 led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“It seems we need someone to know us as we are--with all we have done--and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please. ...for...others it seems there must be a person to redeem us to ourselves. It isn't enough, apparently, to know oneself. To forgive oneself in secret.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone