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.
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We… - Sue Miller
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We…
- Sue Miller
And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when yo… - Sue Miller
And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when yo…
I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as … - Sue Miller
I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as …
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 would have been different, surely… - Sue Miller
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 would have been different, surely…
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind. - Sue Miller
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.
There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope. - Sue Miller
There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
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… - Sue Miller
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…
Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them. - Sue Miller
Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.
But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who remi… - Sue Miller
But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who remi…
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