Quotes from The Devotion of Suspect X

“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“It’s more difficult to create the problem than to solve it. All the person trying to solve the problem has to do is always respect the problem’s creator.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“Watching people is a bit of a hobby of mine. It's quite fascinating, really.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“Even when you’re at the top, there’s always something higher,”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“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.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“Kusanagi had met plenty of good, admirable people who’d been turned into murderers by circumstance. There was something about them he always seemed to sense, an aura that they shared. Somehow, their transgression freed them from the confines of a mortal existence, allowing them to perceive the great truths of the universe. At the same time, it meant they had one foot in forbidden territory. They straddled the line between sanity and madness.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“A veces, una persona puede salvar a otra por el hecho mero de existir.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“That's what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“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.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“Aku tahu di dunia ini kadang kita harus menerima fakta yang tidak ingin kita percayai”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“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.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“Kusanagi tuvo la impresión de que estaba vomitando su alma.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“Pada era manapun, keberadaan ilmuan selalu dianggap mencurigakan oleh orang lain”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“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.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“A feeling rose inside him, making him queasy, as though an elaborate formula he’d thought was perfect was now giving false results because of an unpredictable variable.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

“Murder isn't the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.”
― Keigo Higashino, quote from The Devotion of Suspect X

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“—Cuando llega la hora de la verdad, en realidad sólo existen dos tipos de hombres en el mundo —dijo Andy, protegiendo una cerilla con ambas manos ahuecadas y encendiendo un cigarrillo—. Supongamos, Red, que hubiera una casa llena de pinturas y esculturas extrañas y de bellos objetos antiguos. Y supongamos que el propietario de la casa se enterara de que un huracán espantoso avanzaba precisamente en aquella dirección. Uno de los dos tipos de hombres a que me refiero, sencillamente espera que suceda lo mejor. El huracán puede cambiar de curso, se dice a sí mismo. Ningún huracán bien pensante se atrevería jamás a destruir todos esos Rembrandts, mis dos caballos de Degas, mis Grant Wood y mis Benton. Además, Dios no lo permitiría. Y si de todos modos ocurriera lo peor, están asegurados. Ése es un tipo de hombre. El otro sencillamente supone que el huracán arrasará la casa sin más. Si el centro meteorológico anuncia que el huracán ha cambiado de curso, este individuo cree que volverá a cambiar para arrasar su casa. Este segundo tipo de individuo sabe que no existe mal alguno en esperar lo mejor, siempre que estés preparado para lo peor.
Yo también encendí un cigarrillo.
—¿Me estás diciendo que estás preparado para la eventualidad?
—Sí. Estoy preparado para el huracán.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

“Sophia was silent a while, thinking it through. Then, “Go with it.” She said the unfamiliar words carefully, and, grinning, tried them again. “Go with it. You talk about decent people living decent lives as if that doesn’t mean anything, like it’s not a big deal. But you listen–this ‘decent’, it is the only thing that matters. I don’t care if you theorise, Mr Scientist, a machine that makes all men kind and all women beautiful if, while making your machine, you don’t stop to help the old mother cross the street, you know? I don’t care if you cure ageing, or stop starvation or end nuclear wars, if you forget this–” she rapped her knuckles against my forehead “–or this–” pressed her palm against my chest “–because even then if you save everyone else, you’ll be dead inside. Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you’re not helping people, just servicing the machine.”
― Claire North, quote from The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“لا بد أن الشجاعة هي ما تنقصني لإيذاء الآخرين”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, quote from I'll Steal You Away

“... no es nominalismo, no es magia, solamente que las cosas no se pueden variar así de pronto, a veces las cosas viran brutalmente y cuando usted esperaba la bofetada a la derecha. ”
― Julio Cortázar, quote from Bestiario

“Whatever,” he mumbled, which again irritated me because we all know what whatever really meant. Eff you.”
― Elle Jasper, quote from Afterlight

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