The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

by Iain M. Banks

Her short brown hair moved in the same wind which blew the tops from the falling waves and sent the resulting spray curling back out to sea.

The fun is what matters, not the victory. To glory in the defeat of another, to need that purchased pride, is to show you are incomplete and inadequate to start with.”

Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you’re not doing it right.