The Distinguished Guest Quotes

“...that she is beautiful, an impossible kind of beauty, composed of all the wrong elements: white hair, the flawless but deeply lined skin, the freckles of age dotting the hands and face.”
― Sue Miller, The Distinguished Guest

“There were disappointments. Things you couldn’t know you had wanted, or even things you were quite certain you hadn’t wanted, but still, as you discovered, missed some aspect of.”
― Sue Miller, The Distinguished Guest

“I 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 Miller, The Distinguished Guest

“She shrugs finally. "At any rate, no, I have no wish to change my life."
And he realizes, suddenly, what he has been asking her. Realizes that the version of life he has offered Gaby - their life together - is a gift he has given her and has no right to take away. He reaches over and touches her hand. "Of course you don't.”
― Sue Miller, The Distinguished Guest