“My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.”

“Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires.”

“My math is so fuzzy you should pet it. Four minus two isn’t two, because between two and four minus two is an infinite number of numbers.”

“Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.”

“Two plus two is not sometimes equal to four ... It is equal to four plus one because one is a powerful amalgamation.”

“Everything isn’t a piece of cake. You say two plus two equals four, but do you know what happens when you add two piles of sand with two others, Tezee? You get one big pile of sand, not four!" - Aley”