The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis

Top 10 Best Quotes

“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.”

“She was alone, and she liked it. It was the way she had learned everything important in her life.”

“The strongest person is the person who isn’t scared to be alone.”

“Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.”

“She had flirted with alcohol for years. Now it was time to consummate the relationship.”

“My experience has taught me that what you know isn’t always important.” “What is important?” “Living and growing,” Mrs. Wheatley said with finality. “Living your life.”

“And what did being women have to do with it? She was better than any male player in America. She remembered the Life interviewer and the questions about her being a woman in a man's world. To hell with her; it wouldn't be a man's world when she finished with it.”

“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.”

“It is foolish to run risk of going mad for vanity's sake.”

“Her mind was luminous, and her soul sang to her in the sweet moves of chess.”

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