Scott

“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

“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

“You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
― Wystan Hugh Auden

“Nobody can make up for what they did. That isn't how it works. You did something better than that: You got to a place where even the terrible things you did became a . . . a place for repentance, and for someone to forgive you. That is much better than just getting back to the life before. I mean life before this happened just led to the things that happened. This way, the worst things you did became grace.”
― Eve Tushnet, Amends