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You couldn’t erase the people you love. Love didn’t stop because of hurt or pain or betrayal. It thickened like scar tissue around the heart, until the muscle was too stiff, too inflexible, to work properly again.
Real art is about urgency. Communicating something that only you can.”
“A person doesn’t need to deserve forgiveness for you to give it.”
He hadn’t experienced the anguish of losing someone when you were too angry to speak to them. He didn’t know how words never said could haunt you forever.
Henry Tizard, an English scientist who was instrumental in the development of radar technology during World War II.
one of the team members—a young scientist by the name of Edward Bowen—nearly lost the metal box containing the top-secret prototypes and blueprints when it was tied to the top of a taxi.
The Tizard Mission: The Top-Secret Operation That Changed the Course of World War II by Stephen Phelps and Top Secret Exchange: The Tizard Mission and the Scientific War by David Zimmerman
Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers by Jessica Roux and The Complete Language of Flowers: A Definitive and Illustrated History by S. Theresa Dietz (both of which contain stunning botanical illustrations)
