It's more than romantic. It's better than romance. It's friendship. Sam laughed. Who cares about romance anyway? - Gabrielle Zevin

What is the point of bad dates if not to have amusing anecdotes for your friends?

Tell me I don't know you, Sam thought. Tell me I don't know you when I could draw both sides of this hand, your hand, from memory.

Sam would later tell people that these mazes were his first attempts at writing games. "A maze," he would say, "is a video game distilled to its purest form." Maybe so, but this was revisionist and self-aggrandizing. The mazes were for Sadie. To design a game is to imagine the person who will eventually play it.