Quotes from Keigo Higashino

A person's sadness didn't always take a form that others could see.

that the decline in reading among children was largely the fault of their parents. Parents these days don't read books, themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren't readers, however, they have no idea what to give their children. That's why they cling to the recommendations from the Ministry of Education. Those books are all insufferably boring and, as a result, the kids learn to hate books. It's a vicious cycle with no end in sight.

A veces, una persona puede salvar a otra por el hecho mero de existir.

I love you more than anything else in this world. That's why your words were like a knife stabbing me in the heart. That's why you have to die, too.

He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them

There's something I've learned from years of reading people's letters. In most cases, they already have an answer to their problem. They're asking for advice because they want to see if other people think they're making the right decision. That's why a lot of people send me a response after reading my advice. Maybe they had a different solution in mind.

Con ng??i, ?ôi khi, ch? c?n s?ng m?t cách ?áng t? hào c?ng là ?ang giúp ai ?ó r?i.

You can't ignore someone who speaks to you from the heart.

It would destroy the very meaning of a family unit if everyone with their separate ways over fleeting feelings of anger or impatience.

Tr??c kia, khi bi?t anh và Fumiya không chung dòng máu, anh ch? ngh? xem mình có th? làm B? ???c không. Anh không h? ngh? ??n vi?c ph?i ch?n cho ng??i mình yêu con ???ng h?nh phúc. Anh yêu th?ng bé th? c? mà. Anh th?t là ng?c. Anh ?y ?ã nói nh? th? và khóc trên ?i?n tho?i

Only by respecting the other side's work and way of thinking can you open a path for compromise.

The world is full of mysteries. And the joy of uncovering even the slightest mystery is incomparable to any other joy you will ever know.

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.

Curiosity is the fuel that powers the engine of human advancement

I want you to value life. Yours and others. More than you ever have before.

Murder isn't the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.

When an amateur attempts to conceal something, the more complex he makes his camouflage, the deeper the grave he digs for himself. But not so a genius. The genius does something far simpler, yet something no normal person would even dream of, the last thing a normal person would think of doing. And from this simplicity, immense complexity is created.

Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.

If they could redirect the energy they'd spent on trying to find fault with the other side and put it toward finding a new direction that worked for everyone, they could all benefit.

Watch the shrimp and eventually you'll find the goby, that was his belief.

It excited my curiosity. And I believe there is no greater sin than to leave one's curiosity unsatisfied. Curiosity is a fuel that powers the engine of human advancement.

Vi?c ngh? ra m?t bài toán vô cùng khó và vi?c gi?i bài toán ?ó, vi?c nào khó h?n?

Parents these days don't read books themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren't readers, however, they have no idea what to give their children.

Ishigami's design. Yet it all still seemed too unreal to be true. Killing a person to hide a murder – who would think of something like that? Of course, that's the point. He didn't want us to think of it.