Scott

“He had a dilapidated body and a face like the last days of the Raj: jowly, discredited, eager for the final defeat.”
― Eve Tushnet, Amends

“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.”
― Eve Tushnet, Amends

“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.”
― Eve Tushnet, Amends

“Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to “enlarge” your mind? Subtilize it.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick