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“And what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”

“You can drive yourself crazy thinking about different things you could have done in the past. But sometimes I think, actually, I didn't have that much power over my life anyway. I mean, I couldn't give myself a new personality out of nothing. And things just kind of happened to me.”

“Ivan's king, she thinks, since he's playing with the white pieces, and it even looks like him, tall and thin, which is funny. Do chess players think of themselves that way, as the king piece? But from what Margaret remembers of chess, the king is weak and cowardly, and spends most of the game hiding in the corner.”

“Just to hear that sound once again, he thinks. To feel that his life has been preserved somewhere and not for-gotten, gathered around him, packed protectively around him still.”