I wish I could remember the names of the girls from my childhood, but I seem to have blocked this part of my memory into a grave in my skull. I stop the car. We’ve arrived. In the cemetery we pay our respects to aunt Ashlyn Ward. I’ve
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“probably heard that math is the language of science, or the language of Nature is mathematics. Well, it’s true. The more we understand the universe, the more we discover its mathematical connections. Flowers have spirals that line up with a special sequence of numbers (called Fibonacci numbers) that you can understand and generate yourself. Seashells form in perfect mathematical curves (logarithmic spirals) that come from a chemical balance. Star clusters tug on”
― Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
― Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
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“Piper felt her temper rising. At first, she’d felt nothing but fear. Then Meyer had vanished, and intense worry mingled with her terror. A halfway sense of loss followed a few weeks of missing him, but even the emptiness had been hard to maintain over the past three months as the bunker’s day-in, day-out routine composed life’s underground ritual.”
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“up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“Look,” Piper said. “Think of it this way: do you think it’s stupid to keep checking those cameras?” “Maybe.” “What if tomorrow is the day you check them and see your father?” Piper pointed toward the spiral staircase in the room’s corner. “Right up there, at the door by the bathroom, appearing on the kitchen camera. What if he comes back, but we never see it?” “Can’t he just knock?”
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