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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “When you have children, you’ll never be able to worry about a friend as much again,” Dov said. “I’m tired,” Sadie said. “I should go.” Sadie hung up the phone. She pulled Sam’s blanket over her head, and then she went to sleep.”

451. “When you have children, you’ll never be able to worry about a friend as much again,” Dov said. “I’m tired,” Sadie said. “I should go.” Sadie hung up the phone. She pulled Sam’s blanket over her head, and then she went to sleep.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “He’s got one thick book. He’s in the middle of Infinite Jest. You ever heard of it?”

452. “He’s got one thick book. He’s in the middle of Infinite Jest. You ever heard of it?”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Like Sam, I once lived in a house up a hill from the Happy Foot Sad Foot sign. The Happy Foot Sad Foot sign was taken down in 2019, but I am told you can still find its remains in a gift shop somewhere in Silver Lake.”

453. “Like Sam, I once lived in a house up a hill from the Happy Foot Sad Foot sign. The Happy Foot Sad Foot sign was taken down in 2019, but I am told you can still find its remains in a gift shop somewhere in Silver Lake.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.”

454. “The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “A nostalgia for something that had never been? An envy at their intimacy? She wondered what it would have been like if Sam had been her lover.”

455. “A nostalgia for something that had never been? An envy at their intimacy? She wondered what it would have been like if Sam had been her lover.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “You try again. You fail better.”

456. “You try again. You fail better.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “There is no purity in art. The process of how you arrive at something doesn’t matter at all.”

457. “There is no purity in art. The process of how you arrive at something doesn’t matter at all.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “If their traumas are the most interesting things about them, how do they get over any of it?”

458. “If their traumas are the most interesting things about them, how do they get over any of it?”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her.”

459. “She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “This is the most violent poetry game I’ve ever played,′ Marx said.”

460. “This is the most violent poetry game I’ve ever played,′ Marx said.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.”

461. “Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “The coyotes felt capable, canny, and strangely anthropomorphized, as if they had been endowed with human features by a team of animators. Their hair seemed artfully disheveled, the haircut of a hot, young actor playing a drug addict in an independent film. The coyotes felt more human than most of the humans Sam encountered, more human than Sam himself felt back then.”

462. “The coyotes felt capable, canny, and strangely anthropomorphized, as if they had been endowed with human features by a team of animators. Their hair seemed artfully disheveled, the haircut of a hot, young actor playing a drug addict in an independent film. The coyotes felt more human than most of the humans Sam encountered, more human than Sam himself felt back then.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Sam was leaning on his good foot, in the increasingly lopsided way he had to stand, and Sadie felt a swelling of love and of worry for him – what was the difference in the end? It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry.”

463. “Sam was leaning on his good foot, in the increasingly lopsided way he had to stand, and Sadie felt a swelling of love and of worry for him – what was the difference in the end? It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “The lines mean that one doesn’t have to be a god or a king for your life to have meaning.”

464. “The lines mean that one doesn’t have to be a god or a king for your life to have meaning.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “I’ve been blue, lately,” Sam admitted. “And I wondered, how do you get over that sort of thing?” “Work helps,” Sadie said. “Games help. But sometimes, when I’m really low, I keep a particular image in my mind.” “What is it?” “I imagine people playing. Sometimes, it’s one of our games, but sometimes, it’s any game. The thing I find profoundly hopeful when I’m feeling despair is to imagine people playing, to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players.”

465. “I’ve been blue, lately,” Sam admitted. “And I wondered, how do you get over that sort of thing?” “Work helps,” Sadie said. “Games help. But sometimes, when I’m really low, I keep a particular image in my mind.” “What is it?” “I imagine people playing. Sometimes, it’s one of our games, but sometimes, it’s any game. The thing I find profoundly hopeful when I’m feeling despair is to imagine people playing, to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Sam knew that Sadie knew that he loved her. Sadie knew that Sam loved her in the same way she knew that Sam had not seen the Magic Eye.”

466. “Sam knew that Sadie knew that he loved her. Sadie knew that Sam loved her in the same way she knew that Sam had not seen the Magic Eye.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “In this world, to be overly literal is a profound weakness.”

467. “In this world, to be overly literal is a profound weakness.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “I imagine people playing. Sometimes, it’s one of our games, but sometimes, it’s any game. The thing I find profoundly hopeful when I’m feeling despair is to imagine people playing, to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players.”

468. “I imagine people playing. Sometimes, it’s one of our games, but sometimes, it’s any game. The thing I find profoundly hopeful when I’m feeling despair is to imagine people playing, to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.”

469. “Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Sadie hadn’t worked on a game of her own since she’d been with Dov, though she did occasionally help him with his. It was easier, in some ways, to work with and for Dov than it was to do her own work.”

470. “Sadie hadn’t worked on a game of her own since she’d been with Dov, though she did occasionally help him with his. It was easier, in some ways, to work with and for Dov than it was to do her own work.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “They say success kills relationships, but the lack of it will do it just as quickly.”

471. “They say success kills relationships, but the lack of it will do it just as quickly.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “A name is destiny, if you think it is.”

472. “A name is destiny, if you think it is.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “From the window, she could see the water tower of the New England Confectionery Company’s factory, which had recently been painted to resemble a roll of Necco wafers, those barely flavored, pastel-colored, vaguely religious-looking chalky disks. As they approached the factory, the air increasingly smelled of sugar, and the scent made Sadie nostalgic for a candy she had never even tasted.”

473. “From the window, she could see the water tower of the New England Confectionery Company’s factory, which had recently been painted to resemble a roll of Necco wafers, those barely flavored, pastel-colored, vaguely religious-looking chalky disks. As they approached the factory, the air increasingly smelled of sugar, and the scent made Sadie nostalgic for a candy she had never even tasted.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “What was amazing to Sam – and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie – was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location. As Sadie would put it in an interview with.”

474. “What was amazing to Sam – and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie – was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location. As Sadie would put it in an interview with.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “As he rounded Kennedy Street, he began to chant to himself a poem that he had heard once, he wasn’t sure where. “That love is all there is; is all we know of love. It is enough; the freight should be proportioned to the groove.”

475. “As he rounded Kennedy Street, he began to chant to himself a poem that he had heard once, he wasn’t sure where. “That love is all there is; is all we know of love. It is enough; the freight should be proportioned to the groove.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “She liked going to bed early and waking up early. She liked working. She liked that she was good at her work, and she felt proud of the fact that she was well paid for it. She felt pleasure in orderly things – a perfectly efficient section of code, a closet where every item was in its place. She liked solitude and the thoughts of her own interesting and creative mind. She liked to be comfortable.”

476. “She liked going to bed early and waking up early. She liked working. She liked that she was good at her work, and she felt proud of the fact that she was well paid for it. She felt pleasure in orderly things – a perfectly efficient section of code, a closet where every item was in its place. She liked solitude and the thoughts of her own interesting and creative mind. She liked to be comfortable.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “She knew that the presence of the timesheet made it seem as if she had an ulterior motive, though the truth was obvious to her: Sadie Green liked being praised, and Sam Masur was the best friend she had ever had.”

477. “She knew that the presence of the timesheet made it seem as if she had an ulterior motive, though the truth was obvious to her: Sadie Green liked being praised, and Sam Masur was the best friend she had ever had.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “I forget how young you are. You’re still at the age where you mistake your friends and your colleagues for family.”

478. “I forget how young you are. You’re still at the age where you mistake your friends and your colleagues for family.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “As a wedding gift to Ms. Marks, Dr. Daedalus created a topiary hedge maze in the garden by her house. When asked why she had decided to make such a gift, the doctor replied cryptically, “To make a game is to imagine the person playing it.”

479. “As a wedding gift to Ms. Marks, Dr. Daedalus created a topiary hedge maze in the garden by her house. When asked why she had decided to make such a gift, the doctor replied cryptically, “To make a game is to imagine the person playing it.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Or, I’m sorry, is Ichigo a him?” “Sam and Sadie say them.” “Cool. When the parents can’t recognize them. That moment is straight out of The Odyssey.”

480. “Or, I’m sorry, is Ichigo a him?” “Sam and Sadie say them.” “Cool. When the parents can’t recognize them. That moment is straight out of The Odyssey.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “If Sadie and Sam had been lovers, Sadie was certain she would have been seen as Sam’s helpmate, and not as an artist in her own right. Many people saw her that way already.”

481. “If Sadie and Sam had been lovers, Sadie was certain she would have been seen as Sam’s helpmate, and not as an artist in her own right. Many people saw her that way already.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “The most important thing is finding someone you wish to play with.”

482. “The most important thing is finding someone you wish to play with.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Freda would grab his hand with her soft, old hand, and pat it gently, and say, “Life is long” or.”

483. “Freda would grab his hand with her soft, old hand, and pat it gently, and say, “Life is long” or.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Lights, bright enough to dilate her eyes. Horns, flaccid and come too late. Metal crumpling like tissue. The body was not in pain but only because the body was gone, elsewhere. Yes, Daniel thinks just after impact but before death, like that. The passage hadn’t been as bad as he had thought.”

484. “Lights, bright enough to dilate her eyes. Horns, flaccid and come too late. Metal crumpling like tissue. The body was not in pain but only because the body was gone, elsewhere. Yes, Daniel thinks just after impact but before death, like that. The passage hadn’t been as bad as he had thought.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Yes, she loved him, but she also liked him. She liked herself when she was with him.”

485. “Yes, she loved him, but she also liked him. She liked herself when she was with him.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “There were smart people, yes. There were people with whom you might have a decent conversation for twenty minutes. But to find someone who you wanted to talk to for 609 hours – that was rare. Even Marx – Marx was devoted, creative, and bright, but he was not Sadie.”

486. “There were smart people, yes. There were people with whom you might have a decent conversation for twenty minutes. But to find someone who you wanted to talk to for 609 hours – that was rare. Even Marx – Marx was devoted, creative, and bright, but he was not Sadie.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Hey, pretty girl. How you doing?” “Adopted,” she says.”

487. “Hey, pretty girl. How you doing?” “Adopted,” she says.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “As Sam often said to Sadie, “Why make anything if you don’t believe it could be great?”

488. “As Sam often said to Sadie, “Why make anything if you don’t believe it could be great?”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Alice would only have to be in the hospital for two nights this time, and it was only out of, according to her mother, “an abundance of caution.” It reminded her of a murder of crows, a flock of seagulls, a pack of wolves. She imagined that “caution” was a creature of some kind – maybe, a cross between a Saint Bernard and an elephant. A large, intelligent, friendly animal that could be counted on to defend the Green sisters from threats, existential and otherwise.”

489. “Alice would only have to be in the hospital for two nights this time, and it was only out of, according to her mother, “an abundance of caution.” It reminded her of a murder of crows, a flock of seagulls, a pack of wolves. She imagined that “caution” was a creature of some kind – maybe, a cross between a Saint Bernard and an elephant. A large, intelligent, friendly animal that could be counted on to defend the Green sisters from threats, existential and otherwise.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “The Fall of the House of Usher’ is a fair primer on what not to do with children.”

490. “The Fall of the House of Usher’ is a fair primer on what not to do with children.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “She feels very sorry for her mother because people who don’t wake up can’t go downstairs to the bookstore in the morning.”

491. “She feels very sorry for her mother because people who don’t wake up can’t go downstairs to the bookstore in the morning.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “He was nearly to the subway’s escalator when he turned back to see what the crowd had been looking at. Sam could imagine reporting the congestion in the train station, and Marx saying, “Weren’t you even curious what it was? There’s a world of people and things, if you can manage to stop being a misanthrope for a second.” Sam didn’t like Marx thinking of him as a misanthrope, even if he was one, and so, he turned. That was when he espied his old comrade, Sadie Green.”

492. “He was nearly to the subway’s escalator when he turned back to see what the crowd had been looking at. Sam could imagine reporting the congestion in the train station, and Marx saying, “Weren’t you even curious what it was? There’s a world of people and things, if you can manage to stop being a misanthrope for a second.” Sam didn’t like Marx thinking of him as a misanthrope, even if he was one, and so, he turned. That was when he espied his old comrade, Sadie Green.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Samson, you are a lucky boy,′ Don Hyun said to Sam in a perfectly clear voice. ‘You have had tragedy, yes, but you have had many good friends as well.”

493. “Samson, you are a lucky boy,′ Don Hyun said to Sam in a perfectly clear voice. ‘You have had tragedy, yes, but you have had many good friends as well.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Go ask Sadie what it would take to turn Mapletown into an online role-playing game. And here I am. I obey the giant bird of dreams.”

494. “Go ask Sadie what it would take to turn Mapletown into an online role-playing game. And here I am. I obey the giant bird of dreams.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Promise me you’ll always forgive me, and I promise I’ll always forgive you.”

495. “Promise me you’ll always forgive me, and I promise I’ll always forgive you.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Anders Larsson, was standing over him, looking like a blond Jesus in North Face.”

496. “Anders Larsson, was standing over him, looking like a blond Jesus in North Face.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “I fail in my work every day, but I keep turning over the problems until I’m not failing anymore. But public failures are different, it’s true.” “So, what do I do?” she asked. “You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it’s a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.”

497. “I fail in my work every day, but I keep turning over the problems until I’m not failing anymore. But public failures are different, it’s true.” “So, what do I do?” she asked. “You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it’s a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “But then he reminded himself: They are not only my friends. They are my colleagues. He had turned them into his colleagues, and in a strange way, that was comforting to Sam. Ichigo bonded them to him for life.”

498. “But then he reminded himself: They are not only my friends. They are my colleagues. He had turned them into his colleagues, and in a strange way, that was comforting to Sam. Ichigo bonded them to him for life.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “She realized what a gate was: it was an indication that you had left one pace and were entering another.”

499. “She realized what a gate was: it was an indication that you had left one pace and were entering another.”

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Gabrielle Zevin Quote: “Her voice sounds like a firefly looks on a summer night.”

500. “Her voice sounds like a firefly looks on a summer night.”

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