Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin *****

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin “is a novel about work” and “is equally about love.” The work is the development of video games. The Love is Sam and Sadie who knew each other before college but really got together in Cambridge. She went to MIT and he went to Harvard. Theirs is a creative, collaborative love – no sex. They design and develop extraordinary video games together. The third person is Marx, the producer. Together the three of them founded a very successful company, Unfair Games. Marx and Sam are in Love. Marx and Sadie are in Love. If you love video games or Love, you’ll love this book.

Some quotes about love:

"Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.”

“I agree. And what? Your grandfather owns a Donkey Kong machine? That is so cool! I love those old machines. What kind of restaurant is it?”

“It’s a pizza place,” Sam said.

“What? I love pizza! It’s my favorite food on earth. Can you eat all the pizza you want for free?”

Sam nodded while expertly annihilating two ducks.

“That’s, like, my dream. You’re living my actual dream.

“I’m making a game!” Sam rambled on about Ichigo and Sadie, and Anders, who was not a gamer, looked at him blankly, but kindly. “It seems, my friend, you have found love?”

“Anders, you talk about love more than any mathematician I know.”

[Zoe] loved nothing so much as going outside, stripping, and playing by herself. Her mother had once discovered her this way behind their house and had made Zoe see a therapist. (The therapist determined that Zoe had the healthiest body image of any teenage girl he’d ever met.)

“And what is love, in the end?” Alabaster said. “Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else’s journey through life?”

“Love you, Sammy,” Dong Hyun said.

“I love you, too, Grandpa.”

For most of his life, Sam had found it difficult to say I love you. It was superior, he believed, to show love to those one loved. But now, it seemed like one of the easiest things in the world Sam could do.

Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not?

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is equally about love.

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