Yorumlara bakmamistim, yazara bir sans vermek istedim ve kitap hep internet sitelerinde karsima cikiyordu. Baktim cok uzun da bir kitap degil, ingilizce okuyayim dedim. Dili basit, konu ve olay orgusu akici..cok fazla kisa kisa bolumden olusuyor, o nedenle telefondan da okunabilir. Ingilizce de okunabilir, intermediate seviye gayet yeterli.
Benim kitaptan kendime not aldigim alintilar;
Spoiler olabilir.
* You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.
* It’s about everything. It seems impossible to live without hurting people.’
‘That’s because it is.’
* And even if you were a pawn – maybe we all are – then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn’t. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.’
* I am saying that the thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory. You have to keep going.
* Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – / I took the one less travelled by, / And that has made all the difference . . .’
* ‘At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So it gets very messy. And there is no right way to play; th ere are many ways. In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every hope, every dream, every regret,