11 Quotes by Eve Tushnet

When you say, 'I do,' you cannot be sincere, because you cannot know what you're doing. You may want some idea called 'being married' but you have no idea what being married will actually require of you. And so your sincerity and your strength of character don't really matter. If you are a morally weak person you can still marry. You don't have to wait until you're ready, because you're never ready. And so it is with 'I'm sorry.

Applause washed toward her, liquid and sparkling. People in the audience held up their phones to take her picture, cameras held like candles. She had enough vanity left to wish for privacy. In heaven, she thought, tired and uncomforted, the lights will be even brighter.Maybe there it will not be so bad to be seen for what we are.

She kissed him then, with the same mixture of wonder and irony with which she kissed the cross in church. She didn't always understand that, either.

Yes. But I like Americans," she said, with a sigh. "Everybody likes Americans. You have to. It upsets them so much if you don't.

You can't have a vocation of No

I was born in the wrong body. I’m actually, spiritually, a wolf. It’s called being otherkin. It’s very important for me to be open about it – coming out transformed my life, and my family. Our dog used to be terrified of storms and postal workers, but I was able to communicate with her, and now she’s much more secure and self-grounded. I think of communication as my calling.” “Please.

You can’t have a vocation of No.

Yes. But I like Americans,” she said, with a sigh. “Everybody likes Americans. You have to. It upsets them so much if you don’t.

He had a dilapidated body and a face like the last days of the Raj: jowly, discredited, eager for the final defeat.