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Melissa

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The Knave and the Moon (The Stonewater Kingdom, #2)

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A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)

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Transformation (Penguin Archive)

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I was occupied without exhausting myself, for the wonderful advantage of the game of chess is that, by concentrating your intellectual energies into a strictly limited area, it doesn’t tire the brain even with the most strenuous thinking, ...more

Melissa’s Quotes

“Listening to the two of them, she had felt something unpleasant and familiar: the sense that chess was a thing between men, and she was an outsider. She hated the feeling.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

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“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

tags: life, story

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“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

tags: edward-hyde, hide-and-seek, names

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“Her mind was luminous, and her soul sang to her in the sweet moves of chess.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

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“And what did being women have to do with it? She was better than any male player in America. She remembered the Life interviewer and the questions about her being a woman in a man's world. To hell with her; it wouldn't be a man's world when she finished with it.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

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