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“It is certainly not my place to know the unknowable and, in any case, I would always choose love over peace of mind.
And I have love.
As great a love as any man has known.”
― Cameron Bloom, Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family

“Checkers is the game of life,” she said. “Idiots will tell you that chess is, but it isn’t. That’s a game of war. Real life is like checkers. You try to make your way to where you need to go and to do it you’ve got to jump over people while they’re trying to jump over you and everyone is in each other’s way.”
― Syed M. Masood, The Bad Muslim Discount

“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“she is giving up a fortune for the sake of a man, and we men have so poor an opinion of each other that we can hardly call a woman wise who does that.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch