“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 you begin to turn, when you’re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.” WayWantNeedsFeelsMomentsSeemsTogetherRememberTurnsWalksOur LivesBlessedThat MomentRitualSecondsThings In LifeLife Together Author: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. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the 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.” IfsFirstsWellsKindHas BeensMadeDifferentLyingSecretSilenceOur LivesWifeJokesWhat IfAusterity Author:Sue Miller
