Quotes from Keigo Higashino

it was difficult when times were hard to pretend to be happy, doing the reverse was relatively simple.

Naohiro stared at Kaga, shaking his head. "One last question. What's your rank?" "Sergeant." "Well, they should promote you to lieutenant," declared Naohiro, and headed for the door.

Aku tahu di dunia ini kadang kita harus menerima fakta yang tidak ingin kita percayai

marriage meant offering daily salvation to a man standing on the gallows

It's okay if you don't like science," he said, "but that doesn't mean you can just ignore things you don't understand. It'll come back to haunt you.

People don't drift apart for one specific reason. Well, you might be able to find a reason, but you could come up with one only after you made up your mind, a tired excuse tacked on after the fact. If their hearts were still in it and their bond was threatening to sever, you'd think one of them would step in and try to fix things. When no one does, you know the bond has already been broken.

Murder is murder. Everything else is just details

Bagi para penulis, karya adalah belahan jiwa mereka. Atau dalam bahasa yang lebih sederhana, mereka menganggap karya mereka sudah seperti anak sendiri. Penulis mencintai karya yang dilahirkannya layaknya para orangtua di dunia yang mencintai anak-anak mereka.

Nh?ng ch? c?n ???c ? g?n nh?ng th? cao sang nh? v?y thôi c?ng h?nh phúc r?i. Vi?c m?u c?u danh ti?ng s? phá h?ng s? kính tr?ng c?a ng??i khác dành cho mình.

Do you know what accounts for most research delays? Interruptions that have nothing to do with the research whatsoever.

You may be an expert in environmental protection policy, but when it comes to science, you're an amateur. How much do you actually know about undersea resource development? If you truly want to come up with a solution that allows both, you'll need to have the same amount of knowledge and experience with both. It's arrogant to think that knowing only one is sufficient. Only by respecting the other side's work and way of thinking can you open a path for compromise.

I hear you. Still, I can't imagine it's all that pleasant having a murder suspect in the neighborhood." "It wasn't me she murdered, so I don't see how it's any of my business.

Détaché de ses amarres, son cœur flottait à la dérive dans la ciel.

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.

Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you'll fail to see what's right under your nose.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

The Imperial University library was a substantial three-story building. When Kusanagi was a student, he had only visited it two or three times at most. He guessed that additions had been built since he'd left, but he couldn't exactly remember what the place had looked like before. The entire edifice could have been rebuilt and he wouldn't have known the difference.

Berhentilah memanfaatkan situasi yang menguntungkan hanya supaya kau bisa memaksakan pendapatmu" -Detektif Kusanagi

Pada era manapun, keberadaan ilmuan selalu dianggap mencurigakan oleh orang lain

Grownups were always breaking promises as if it didn't matter at all.

If there's something you're not going to be able to do, you should just be honest and admit it.

Setiap kali melakukan pekerjaan ini, ada satu hal yang selalu muncul di benak saya. Saat terjadi kasus pembunuhan brutal, yang saya pikirkan bukan hanya menangkap si pelaku, tapi juga menyelidiki mengapa peristiwa itu bisa terjadi. Jika tidak, kesalahan sama akan terulang kembali. Banyak hal yang bisa dipelajari dari suatu kejadian. Kaga

Setelah sekian lama membaca surat permintaan konsultasi, ada satu hal yang kupahami. Dalam berbagai kasus, sebenarnya si pengirim surat sudah menemukan jawabannya. Mereka berkonsultasi hanya demi memastikan bahwa orang lain juga membenarkan keputusan mereka.

She was pretty, he had to admit, with very delicate features. But there was something else, too. There are thorns in her eyes—that was the only way he could express it. For a moment, he thought she might have felt left out because he spoke to her friend first and not to her, but as she smiled, he realised the thorns were always there. A true lady would never have eyes like that.