Daniel G. Miller > Quotes

“People think that we’re defined by the big moments in our lives: births, deaths, successes, and failures. But I think the little moments matter more because those are the moments that shape your self-perception and who you want to become.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“The law of identity essentially says that something is indeed what you say it is. One must accept that before you can move forward with any rational discussion.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Tree of Knowledge

“What else is Madeline hiding? Who else is involved? My brain revs like an engine in neutral, stuck in place like the traffic in front of me.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“You can hope for the good times, but it’s the bad times that make you.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“There’s a great quote I read once that says ‘To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.’ So, the way I see it, you’ve accomplished a lot.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“The palest ink is clearer than the strongest memory”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“He’s joking, but the truth of it lingers. The old high school insecurities come back, and I fight the urge to smell my dress and open the windows. People think that we’re defined by the big moments in our lives: births, deaths, successes, and failures. But I think the little moments matter more because those are the moments that shape your self-perception and who you want to become. I change the subject to get my mind off it.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“Things weren’t always this way. I return to the picture on my desktop and remember when I was an honor list college student with a seemingly limitless future in front of her. I led the Legal Eagles club and dominated mock trial. The world seemed simple and filled with promise. But the world tends to take our hopes and dreams and steadily beat them down until they become something else entirely.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“His lips are perfect, and it’s so clear that he knows what he’s doing. Unlike most guys, whose desperation for sex emanates from them like body spray, Andrew kisses like this is all he would ever need.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“But part of being a young woman in an older man’s world is picking your battles, and this is one I won’t win. Sometimes you have to eat shit.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“But the world tends to take our hopes and dreams and steadily beat them down until they become something else entirely.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“In my business, I’ve found that symbols matter. What people choose for their car, their passwords, their screen names, their brand provide a window into who they truly are.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“That’s grief in a nutshell: your heart gets blown to bits, and the second a couple of pieces come back together, you think of the one you lost and you’re obliterated all over again.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Red Letter

“The palest ink is clearer than the strongest memory.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“You know that moment when you’re watching a horror movie and you see the woman descending into a dark basement and you’re like, “You’re such an idiot. Don’t go down there”? Well, this is one of those moments. And I am that idiot.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“If you see a turtle on a fence post, you know it had some help”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“The world’s going to try to break you. The only choice you got to make is if you’re going to let it.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Red Letter

“We enter her bookshop, which is everything you want a bookshop to be. It’s a small space populated with books of all sorts and varieties displayed haphazardly. Warm yellow lighting glows from the ceiling. The smell of paper blends perfectly with the coffee aroma from the small café in back. I could picture losing myself here on a rainy day.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Red Letter

“As strange as it sounds, I do my best work sitting in bed with my computer on my lap. I think it reminds me of home, when I used to sit on my twin mattress studying into the wee hours, occasionally stealing glimpses of my Justin Timberlake poster to fortify myself.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“The lackadaisical assistant glances up from her phone and flashes me a dead smile.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“There’s something sadistic about him, taking such pleasure in the lack of joy. I”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“descending”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“I used to love sinking my teeth into a case: performing the research, running the interviews. But over time, you feel like you’re pushing a boulder that will inevitably tumble back down.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“People think of trauma as a moment, a temporary visitor. But it’s not. It’s a lifelong companion.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Red Letter

“Fear is like a cancer—it starts with an actual moment but then multiplies and gains hold of you until it’s bending your experience of everything around you.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“law of the excluded middle, which states that in order to proceed in a well-reasoned argument, something either must be true or not; there can be nothing in between. A classic example violating this law is the question ‘Is the king of the United States bald?’ Since there is no king of the United States, the question and any argument stemming from it are, therefore, invalid.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Tree of Knowledge

“There’s a great quote I read once that says ‘To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.’ So the way I see it, you’ve accomplished a lot.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“That’s how you know you love someone—everything else fades away in their presence.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Red Letter