Jaclyn

“A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The deepest sorrow, he thought. Where the only way to survive is to excavate everything.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“She embellished the facts because she was aware that life is how we tell it, so why would she jot down trivia?”
― Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists