Abdillahi

“I’m…getting there. I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is unknown. And maybe,” I say with another smile, “it’s okay to be inspired by the people who do know their future.” “It goes both ways, you know.” I link his icicle fingers through mine. “What does?” “Artists are inspired by blank canvases.” My smile grows wider.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”
― Plato