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.
Sue MillerI sometimes worried that the more instinctive forms of love were not so available to you. That easy maternal devotion, for instance, that seemed so natural in some women, and which, as we spoke of from time to time, was something you had to struggle to feel. [p. 189]
Sue MillerI tried to talk about it to Lily, to make her see that for once, I'd earned a feeling. [p. 174]
Sue MillerThe 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 MillerMots clés gratitude while-i-was-gone sue-miller ordinary-things
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 MillerMots clés love forgiveness secrets while-i-was-gone sue-miller
...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.
Sue MillerMots clés words while-i-was-gone sue-miller silences
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 MillerMots clés lies secrets while-i-was-gone austerity sue-miller silences
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 MillerMots clés silence relationships anger while-i-was-gone sue-miller
A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.
Sue MillerMots clés secrets while-i-was-gone sue-miller
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