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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over acuteness of the senses?
“I could have done this at eight.”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
“Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
“There are those who seek me a lifetime but never we meet,
And those I kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet.
At times I seem to favor the clever and the fair,
But I bless all those who are brave enough to dare.
By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet,
But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat.
For though each of my strikes lands a powerful blow,
When I kill, I do it slow... ”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
And those I kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet.
At times I seem to favor the clever and the fair,
But I bless all those who are brave enough to dare.
By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet,
But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat.
For though each of my strikes lands a powerful blow,
When I kill, I do it slow... ”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“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
“Beth walked slowly home and replayed the game. Her mind was as lucid as a perfect, stunning diamond”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
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