Quotes by Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

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...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them. — Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, — 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 who — Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feel — Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibilit — Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
I was recalling that other world in which it had thrilled me, in a way, the surprise of thinking that I could be a perso — 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 — Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
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 woul — 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 austeri — Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did — Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
And then heard Detective Ryan’s pleased voice talking about Eli, about killers who’ve gone free: “They have to tell,” he — 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
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind. — Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
But then he returned and our life went on. Three days gone. A week. I measured the time in the faint waning of my consci — Sue Miller, While I Was Gone