Keigo Higashino · 298 pages
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“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.”
“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.”
“Watching people is a bit of a hobby of mine. It's quite fascinating, really.”
“Even when you’re at the top, there’s always something higher,”
“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.”
“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.”
“A veces, una persona puede salvar a otra por el hecho mero de existir.”
“That's what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.”
“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.”
“Aku tahu di dunia ini kadang kita harus menerima fakta yang tidak ingin kita percayai”
“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.”
“He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them”
“Kusanagi tuvo la impresión de que estaba vomitando su alma.”
“Pada era manapun, keberadaan ilmuan selalu dianggap mencurigakan oleh orang lain”
“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.”
“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.”
“Murder isn't the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.”
“Care? He didn't care. He loved her.”
“He said it aloud, because there was no reason to be silent. "I am - undone. She has undone me."
And his hand closed around the glass slipper.”
“Even if it’s not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.”
“Nothing you do in the White House matters. You know why not? Because as far as the mass of voting morons is concerned, while you're in office, you'll still be the worst single president they've ever had until you stop. Then it's some other poor bastard's turn. And even that doesn't matter, because ten, twenty years later, they'll look back on you, and wonder why they didn't appreciate you when they had you...You don't get to make a difference. You don't get to do jack shit. You know what you get?...You get an entry in the history book, and every 15 minutes, every day at Disneyworld, an animatronic puppet wearing your face will wave or nod when the spotlight hits it.”
“There are people who believe in you. You might not always believe that yourself, but there are—parents, teachers, neighbors, relatives, me. I know that no matter what is thrown at you, you’ll recover amazingly.”
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