Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

And the thing about games is, if you get good at one game, you can be good at any game. That's what I think. They're all hand-eye coordination and observing patterns.

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, by David Kushner;

Most of the time, Sam did not experience himself as disabled, but the cobblestones, the ice, and the glacial pace at which he had to negotiate them suggested otherwise.

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, by Jason Schreier;

And this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It's the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

Before I met you, I felt this constantly. I felt it with my family, my friends, and every boyfriend I ever had. I felt it so often that I thought this was the nature of living. To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone." Simon's

Life is very long, she thought, unless it is not.

All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture, by Harold Goldberg;

What, after all, is a video game's subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?

This fabric is not just a fabric. It's the story of failure and of perseverance, of the discipline of a craftsman, of the life of an artist.

Enough is…Maybe this is selfish, but I don't want to love more than I am loved. And I don't want to be with someone who loves something or someone more than me.

You aren't just a gamer when you play anymore. You're a builder of worlds, and if you're a builder of worlds, your feelings are not as important as what your gamers are feeling. You must imagine them at all times. There is no artist more empathetic than the game designer." Sadie the gamer found this scene sexist and strange

because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity.

You would think women would want to stick together when there weren't that many of them. But they never did. It was as if being a woman was a disaster that you didn't wish to catch. As long as you didn't associate with the other women, you could imply to the majority, the men, I'm not like the other women.

Life is very long, unless it is not.

You are happy and you are bored. You need to find a new pastime.

It was as if she were a mathematical proof that had eluded him for many years, but all at once, with fresh, well-rested eyes, the proof had a completely obvious solution.

It was only when he was alone and he couldn't participate in the business of living that he tended to notice how lovely being alive was.

There's a difference between being alive and living

Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to "fight," as if sickness were a character failing.

The world had always looked painfully beautiful to him when he was sick. It was only when he was alone and he couldn't participate in the business of living that he tended to notice how lovely being alive was.

What I believe to my very core is that virtual worlds can be better than the actual world. They can be more moral, more just, more progressive, more empathetic, and more accommodating of difference. And if they can be, shouldn't they be?

Pregnant, she looked like a pretty Gollum.

There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway. And it is possible that, without Sam (or someone like him) pushing her through this period, Sadie might not have become the game designer she became. She might not have become a designer at all.