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101 " Just these,” Nina replied, holding up a fist full of balsa wood chopsticks. “That’s okay,” Walter said, tipping the box to his lips like a cup and slurping up the noodles. "
― Christa Faust , The Zodiac Paradox
102 " So Nina’s got a small lab we can use, set up in the basement,” Bell said. "
103 " I tried all the basic approaches,” he said. “Including the one those teachers used to crack the cipher he sent to the papers. No dice. This is much more complicated, and far more secure. See, look here. "
104 " The most common double-letter pairing in the English language being the double L, of course, challenged only by the double T. "
105 " There are only one or two repeats in the whole book. So that got me thinking polyalphabetic substitution. "
106 " It uses twenty-six substitution ciphers,” he told her. “One for each letter of the alphabet. But the problem is that it requires a keyword to solve. "
107 " We could spend the rest of our lives trying to randomly guess his keyword. And worse, I’m fairly certain he’s using multiple keywords, maybe even more than one on every page. I wouldn’t say it’s crack-proof, but I believe it may be beyond my own personal abilities. "
108 " Try Reiden,” he said. “My God,” Walter said, putting his own food aside and grabbing the pencil. "
109 " Less than an hour later, Walter had most of the last page of the notebook deciphered. "
110 " Not that I regret my previous choice. It’s only that the anticipation of killing has me feeling particularly appreciative of youth. "
111 " The sparks are getting hungrier every day, but controlling appetites is what separates man from beast. I shall wait until "
112 " We should get to work immediately on recreating the exact pharmacological launchpad we used that day at Reiden Lake. "
113 " Four minutes,” Walter said, “seems like four hours. "
114 " Chick and Iggy had never come home the night before, but according to Nina this was a fairly regular occurrence, usually attributable to drugs, women, or both. "
115 " He would feel horrible if anything happened to her and her baby, all because of him. "
116 " Although Walter was the first to admit that his own memory wasn’t the best—that he forgot people’s names all the time even when he’d been introduced more than once—he "
117 " He found himself struck by a sudden fear that something might happen to him in the future that would destroy his memory. Some kind of disease or mental breakdown. "
118 " Walter suddenly became aware of a strange chill seeping into his lower body. "
119 " Remarkable,” he said, allowing the floor to trickle out between his fingers. “Belly, do you see this, too? "
120 " Walter was all alone in a huge, empty room with no windows. "