The Senator's Wife Quotes

“the way she felt about her past was that she had somehow come into being who she was without any connection to it. As if floating in naked and unencumbered on some shell,”
― Sue Miller, The Senator's Wife

“Do you remember when everyone thought Bush (sr) had a mistress too"" he asks in the course of a Clinton era conversation. "But she was rumored to be someone wealthy and Waspy, of course...The problem here is the goddamn Democrats, who sleep down, you see. They love that white trash...And white trash loves publicity,so the Democrats are the ones who get into all the trouble. As opposed to the Republicans. They sleep up...Up, where all is Episcopalian and quiet as death itself, and no one ever has to hear a thing about it”
― Sue Miller, The Senator's Wife

“Young people ought to be more indecisive, she thought, since they knew so little.”
― Sue Miller, The Senator's Wife

“her. “How do you always know that stuff?” she asked. “Are you kidding? Everyone knows that stuff.” He went back to the kitchen to start cleaning up. Meri crossed to the lilies. Bending over them,”
― Sue Miller, The Senator's Wife