This Fearless Girl (Saint Clary's University, #2)

by E.M. Moore

“You aren’t a side anything. You’re it. You always have been, and if you’d let me talk for more than a few seconds, I’ll show you. I’ll prove it to you.”

“Does that scare you?” “Everything scares me.” “Good,” he muses. “That’s how you know you’re living.”

“That’s all life is,” Cole argues. “Just pieces on a chessboard, keeping them moving so you don’t get put in checkmate. And you know who the most important piece on the chessboard is, don’t you?” I’ve played chess a few times. One of the few things my dad tried to teach me when I was younger that I never really enjoyed. I preferred reading. “The queen.”