#lent

It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#valentine #city

...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to toss it away so arbitrarily! But nature could not care less what we think about it, and as far as talent is concerned, there is such an excess that our artists will soon become their own audiences, and audiences made up of ordinary people will no longer exist. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#talent #art

...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard... ↗

— Morgan Matson

#gift #practice #talent #crime

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. ↗

— George Eliot

#blessings #loquacity #remaining-silent #reticence #silence

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#contradiction #face #i #i believe #i believe that

I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.
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— Jarod Kintz

#english #ignore #ignoring #language #languages

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#heart #reading #growth

Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilites need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, NO ONE can take it away. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#inspirational #talents #dreams

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure. ↗

— Lilith Saintcrow

#the-devil-s-right-hand #escape

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#talent