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Monogamy QUOTES

Monogamy QUOTES

1 " Love isn't just what two people have together, it's what two people make together, so of course, it's never the same. "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

2 " Just, that we read fiction because it suggests that life has a shape, and we feel . . . consoled, I think he said, by that notion. Consoled to think that life isn’t just one damned thing after another. That it has sequence and consequence.” She smiled at Edith. “I think it was more or less the idea that fictional narrative made life seem to matter, that it pushed away the meaninglessness of death. "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

3 " He’d taught her something tonight. Taught her almost painlessly. Almost. She’d thought she was memorable. How clear it was that she was not. It wasn’t a quality you possessed, she thought now. It was a quality other people endowed you with. She felt small, and foolish, exposed. "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

4 " Just, that we read fiction because it suggests that life has a shape, and we feel . . . consoled, I think he said, by that notion. Consoled to think that life isn’t just one damned thing after another. That it has sequence and consequence.” She smiled at Edith. “I think it was more or less the idea that fictional narrative made life seem to matter, that it pushed away the "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

5 " It had felt liberating to acknowledge this to himself and others, to shed his painful sense of the obligation to be somehow remarkable; but it left him with the unanswered question of what to do with his life, and simultaneously the realization that working on the novel endlessly had been a way to avoid facing that question. "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

6 " course, it’s never the same.”) "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

7 " Dylan Thomas, ‘Fern Hill, "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

8 " Love isn’t just what two people have together, it’s what two people make together, so of course, it’s never the same.”) "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

9 " announcement "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

10 " She’d thought she was memorable. How clear it was that she was not. It wasn’t a quality you possessed, she thought now. It was a quality other people endowed you with. "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

11 " She had read the same sentence over and over, and each time she lifted her eyes to look at Graham, he was always there, looking back at her. The wait had seemed endless to her, but finally the lights blinked off and on several times, and the store began to empty out. "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

12 " I'd be a bad bet even if there there no Annie, Rosemary. I would have been. I'm just not good at saying no. I want–I always want to say yes. And I want to want to say yes. To everything. I'm a greedy person. More or less bottomlessly hungry.' He thinks of babies again. "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

13 " Maybe the passing of time had made a monogamous man of Graham. "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

14 " to the present, that this was "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy

15 " Do you remember his argument about fiction?" Annie asked. "About narrative? Another big theory."

"I don't. Probably I wasn't at that party."

"Just, that we read fiction because it suggests that life has a shape, and we feel ... consoled, I think he said, by that notion. Consoled to think that life isn't just one damned thing after another. That it has sequence and consequences." She smiled at Edith. "I think it was more or less the idea that fictional narrative made life seem to matter, that it pushed away the meaninglessness of death. "

― Sue Miller , Monogamy