Carla

“The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side. But the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“That’s the most tragic thing about child abuse and its effects—they never leave, just take on another form. The abuser goes on living as if nothing has ever happened, while the victim pays the price.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted

“Shrinks will tell you there are only five problems: sex, money, intimacy, trust, children. No, six: add "parents," as in in-laws, Alzheimer's, inheritance. And of course they are all related,”
― Elizabeth Benedict, The Practice of Deceit

“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
― Marcus Sakey, A Better World