Sue Miller, While I Was Gone Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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