“Her mind was luminous, and her soul sang to her in the sweet moves of chess.”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.”
― It
― It
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“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.”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
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