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Big Shot
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So, for years after that, whenever I saw a person I liked or wanted to impress at a restaurant, I picked up their tab. I couldn’t always afford it, really, but it was such a thrill to surprise a person I knew professionally only medium-well
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She was inspired by BJ's story about running into an NBC's exec at a restaurant who paid for his dinner. She thought that is what made you a BIG SHOT.
“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
“Being forgotten, she thinks, is a bit like going mad. You begin to wonder what is real, if you are real. After all, how can a thing be real if it cannot be remembered?”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
“No matter what tragedy strikes, the story goes on. Life always continues.”
― My Mother's Eyes: A Short Story
― My Mother's Eyes: A Short Story
“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
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