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Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.
“She was alone, and she liked it. It was the way she had learned everything important in her life.”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
“Who else did they have to turn to? Not their parents. Nor the neighborhood. Inside their house they were prisoners; outside, lepers. And so they hid from the world, waiting for someone—for us—to save them.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“But now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“It is foolish to run risk of going mad for vanity's sake.”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
“My experience has taught me that what you know isn’t always important.” “What is important?” “Living and growing,”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
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