Gifted & Talented

by Olivie Blake

you can have money or you can have pride, and guess which one changes the world?

Here’s what you need to know about the Wren family: Aside from being assholes, they’re also fucking frauds.

I’ve learned to expect the least out of the people I thought the highest of. A fitting end, thought the Times reporter, to a story about the falseness of perfection and the disappointment inherent in its pursuit. About what happens when a bright star—and the promise of the stars his own light produced—invariably burns out.

She loved it but wasn’t especially talented at it, which was the usual kind of personal tragedy befalling constituents of the world.

Maybe impostor syndrome was real, but not for her, an actual impostor.

They taught me to aim for perfection, but perfection was always impossible. So what else was I going to do?”

what I really wanted was to feel the way I’d felt when I was young. Like the world was still open before me. Like my destiny was still patiently waiting. Like I could one day have a love that would never feel lonely. Like loneliness itself was something I could eventually overcome.