Sam

“Chess is a bad idea.
Why?
Look where it got me.
It got you here. To me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“He leans toward me over the table, dark eyes earnest, stars traveling on his skin. “Do you know how incredible you are?” I cannot breathe. Temporarily. So I force myself to laugh. “Really? You’re wasting your question on this?” “I am serious. Do you realize how exceptional you are, Mallory?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“I don’t want to remove her walls because that’d destroy her strength, but I’d kill for more peeks into the other side.”
― Julie Olivia, If It Makes You Happy

“Nolan stares like I’m the center of gravity of the room, like nothing else ever existed but me in all of space and time.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate