Sam

“Nolan stares like I’m the center of gravity of the room, like nothing else ever existed but me in all of space and time.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“Chess is a bad idea.
Why?
Look where it got me.
It got you here. To me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“I don’t want to remove her walls because that’d destroy her strength, but I’d kill for more peeks into the other side.”
― Julie Olivia, If It Makes You Happy

“I look at him looking at me, and overflow with something I cannot put a name to. “Because when I’m with you, Mallory, everything is different. When I’m with you, I want to play more than I want to win.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate