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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