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41 " Grand master of memory? What did she have to do?” “Three tasks. The first was to memorize one thousand random numbers in an hour. Next, she had to memorize the order of ten decks of cards in an hour. And lastly, memorize the order of one deck of cards in under two minutes. "
― David Baldacci , Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1)
42 " He slipped on the floor and this time his "
43 " time in the equation. They had a lot to lose. "
44 " was already gone for good. “Hello, who is this?” Watson wasn’t slurring his words. "
45 " there show "
46 " this passage and escaped via the cafeteria or "
47 " DECKER "
48 " But most of "
49 " I don’t believe in ghosts or magic.” “I don’t either, Mary. But I do know one thing.” “What’s that?” “That this guy is not going to get away. "
50 " hyperthymesia, "
51 " Decker had worked his way onto the Cleveland Browns by busting his ass on the practice field, sacrificing his body in idiotic ways that had come back to haunt him in "
52 " But he was also scared, because you did not go into his line of work, or at least survive very long in it, without a commonsensical understanding of your own mortality. "
53 " rooms one by one until they came to the stairs. "
54 " There are no coincidences. All you needed was more in-depth investigation to show that there are no coincidences. "
55 " texted each of them. He waited, waited, waited. Then "
56 " It was the darkest moments before dawn broke. He had been here for hours. It felt like ten minutes, because he really hadn’t come up with anything. But that was okay. Miracles and epiphanies rarely happened in the middle of criminal investigations. If you wanted something like that you needed to turn on the TV. "
57 " Those who only watched pro football from the safety of their stadium seats or big-screen TVs could never imagine the devastating power of enormous men running at speed into other enormous men. It was like being in a car accident over and over. It didn’t merely hurt; it stunned. It shocked the body in so many different ways that one could never be the same afterward. "
58 " I’m not a big fan of football. Gladiators of the twenty-first century, wrecking each other for our amusement while we drink beer and eat hot dogs and cheer when a guy gets wiped out. You’d think we would have gotten beyond that. I guess there’s too much money in it. "
59 " Russians. They were in Germany, "
60 " Gray. For him, as for many folks, it was a confusing color. It lent itself to no particular interpretation. It was a color that could go one way or the other. People desperately wanted the world to be clear-cut in black and white. It made life so much easier: Tough decisions faded away; everything was nicely organized and cataloged. And so were people. But the world was not like that. And neither were the people who inhabited it. At least for those who bothered to explore its complexity. Its grayness. "