Kindle Notes & Highlights
earth. The area is a minefield of fatal dangers
“What is one million dollars compared to the love of eight million
From what I’d seen of it, the revolution’s hold on Cubans looked less like poetry and more like the chess term zugzwang: You’re forced to move, but the only moves you can make will put you in a worse position.
I melted down both my gold medals into my mouth.
“The most
famous human
smuggler was a woman?...
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Cuban eyes often look close to tears.
under the regime. Crickets. Arum seemed the least
Across the street, sailing by in front of the Capitolio, was a fleet of bicycles carting birthday cakes around town. Every kid in Havana is entitled to a free cake until they reach fifteen (plus a free cake on their wedding day), and the state
delivers.
fucking seconds—I
winner,
Pawns are the only piece on a chessboard that can never go backward and, provided they can reach the end of the board, they are the only pieces that can transform into something far more powerful than when they began the game.
