Eve Tushnet Quotes & Sayings

You are constantly looking for some solution, the thing you can do that will make you better and kinder and - and burn fifty pounds using this one weird trick. You're looking for the answer, like once you find it, getting your life in order will be easy. Stop looking for an answer and just do the things. Even when you don't know how. — Eve Tushnet

You can't have a vocation of No — Eve Tushnet

One is never sufficiently grateful for ordinary life; there's no time to notice it when it's happening. — Eve Tushnet

Sharptooth manages to live not even "one day at a time" but one moment at a time. The "now" is big enough for her. I wish I felt like it was big enough for me. — Eve Tushnet

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 — Eve Tushnet

Humility accepts submission to an outside standard. In private we can judge by private standards. We can say that other people just don't understand us. — Eve Tushnet

Medea and the sacred wolf, J. Malachi thought. Somebody help me, I'm going to rehab in a Greek myth. — Eve Tushnet

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

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