“Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn."
"Yeah, it's a gift.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
“The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift,
That no philosophy can lift.”
Presentiments.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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