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21 " Watching people is a bit of a hobby of mine. It's quite fascinating, really. "
― Keigo Higashino , The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo #1)
22 " Even when you’re at the top, there’s always something higher, "
23 " The relationship between teacher and student is based on illusion. The teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What’s important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we’re doing is playing at education. "
― Keigo Higashino , Malice (Detective Kaga, #1)
24 " You know how the sun rises and sets at a certain time each day? In the same way, all of our lives have a day and night. But it's not set like it is with the sun. Some people walk forever in the sunlight, and some people have to walk through the darkest night their whole lives. When people talk about being afraid, what they're afraid of is that their sun will set. That the light they love will fade. "
― Keigo Higashino , Journey Under the Midnight Sun
25 " he presented me with a mathematical conundrum,” he said. “It’s a famous one, the P = NP problem. Basically, it asks whether it’s more difficult to think of the solution to a problem yourself or to ascertain if someone else’s answer to the same problem is correct. "
26 " Be a fighter. Give it everything you’ve got. Even a losing battle is worth fighting. Go out and make your mark. "
― Keigo Higashino , The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
27 " Sometimes it's as important to prove there is no answer to a question as it is to answer it. "
― Keigo Higashino , Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo #2)
28 " Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem? "
29 " That's what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule. "
30 " I would propose that every woman has a little darkness under the surface, "
31 " It seems to me that you have two options: hide the fact that anything happened, or hide the fact that you had anything to do with it. "
32 " The sun had set. Night had come to the city. How easy it would be if everything went dark, and the world ended right here, right now. What a relief it would be. "
33 " It didn’t bother me. It excited my curiosity. And I believe there is no greater sin than to leave one’s curiosity unsatisfied. "
― Keigo Higashino , A Midsummer's Equation (Detective Galileo #3)
34 " Everyone has secrets. And everyone has the right to keep them. Even if they’re dead. "
35 " You’re familiar with the P = NP problem, right?” Yukawa asked from behind him. Ishigami looked around. “You’re referring to the question of whether or not it is as easy to determine the accuracy of another person’s results as it is to solve the problem yourself—or, failing that, how the difference in difficulty compares. It’s one of the questions the Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a prize to solve. "
36 " People who’ve been traumatized by a crime are victims, too. Finding ways to comfort them is also part of my job. "
― Keigo Higashino , Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2)
37 " A veces, una persona puede salvar a otra por el hecho mero de existir. "
38 " It’s not a calculation. It’s a smart woman’s instinct for self defense. "
39 " If you make a habit out of it, it's nothing. The important thing is to make sure that you don't collect too much stuff. I keep throwing out all the extra stuff. If you do that, cleaning up isn't hard at all. As long as you have thirty minutes, you can get it done. One week is ten thousand eighty minutes, so if you just put in some effort for thirty minutes, you can spend about ten thousand minutes in comfort. But if you don't put in the thirty minutes of effort, you'll have to spend ten thousand minutes in discomfort. "
― Keigo Higashino
40 " A person's sadness didn't always take a form that others could see. "