Quotes from Keigo Higashino

Hubungan antara guru dan murid dibangun berdasarkan persepsi yang salah, yaitu tugas sang guru adalah mengajarkan sesuatu sementara tugas murid adalah mempelajarinya. Yang penting adalah bagaimana persepsi itu bisa membuat kedua belah pihak sama-sama puas, apalagi yang namanya kebenaran tidak menjamin semuanya akan baik-baik saja. Yang kita kerjakan saat ini sama dengan bermain sekolah-sekolahan. Nonoguchi

Setiap orang pasti menyimpan rahasia, dan seharusnya juga berhak untuk tetap menyimpan rahasia itu, termasuk yang sudah meninggal. Fujio Miyako

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If he had stopped in before he was killed, then the cops would be after Yasuko something fierce.

And a friend who lets his friend get bullied isn't a real friend at all.

The modest wrinkles and the slackness of her skin were a matter of course. Proof she'd seized the reins in life. Nothing to be ashamed of.

He had always thought of mathematics as a treasure hunt. First, one had to decide where to dig; then one had to determine the proper excavation route that led to the answer. Once you had a plan, you could make formulas to fit it, and they would give you clues. If you wound up empty-handed, you had to go back to the beginning and choose another route. Only by doing this over and over, patiently, yet boldly, could you hope to find the treasure—a solution no one else had ever found.

Tapi, tugas seorang detektif bukan hanya itu. Siapa pun yang menderita karena sebuah kasus, dia juga termasuk korban. Mencari cara untuk menyelamatkan korban seperti itu juga termasuk tugas detektif.

Memang jalan yang saya tempuh sampai hari ini tidak selalu mulus, tapi fakta bahwa saya masih hidup membuat saya yakin bisa mengatasi setiap penderitaan yang menyertainya.

Apparently, it won't do just to tell the reader what a particular character is like. The author needs to show their habits or their words and let the reader form an image on their own.

Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether the killer gets caught or the investigation is brought to a successful conclusion doesn't make any difference; it's almost impossible to stop the advance of the disease.

If we know the truth, there's nothing to be afraid of,

If you don't even know where the door is, how can you ever expect to be able to walk through it? Of course, you don't have to walk through it unless you want to. All I'm testing here is whether or not you know where the doorway is. I'm giving you choices.

Saya berkesimpulan bahwa seseorang hanya bisa merintis kehidupannya dengan mengandalkan kekuatannya sendiri. Paul Lennon

Manusia itu makhluk rumit yang sering melakukan hal-hal bertentangan. Bisa saja beberapa saat sebelumnya dia berniat mengadakan pesta atau memesan tempat di restoran, tapi jika dia ingin mati, maka dia akan mati. Kusanagi

You mean you're wondering if he took advantage of his wife's absence to invite over multiple lovers? What a Casanova!' Ikai slapped his knee. 'But I'd have to say, I really doubt it. Mashiba might've been a chain-smoker, but he wasn't the type to smoke two cigarettes at once.

This is what I've been protecting," she thought. "Just like it's been protecting me

Saya doakan semoga operasi Anda berjalan lancar. Bagaimanapun, saya ingin Anda tetap hidup. Karena pengadilan telah menanti Anda.

Kusanagi tuvo la impresión de que estaba vomitando su alma".

How easy it would be if everything went dark, and the world ended right here, right now. What a relief it would be.

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

Tapi tentu saja ada perbedaan antara 'menyayangi' dan 'membesarkan dengan baik'. Membesarkan dengan baik berarti memikirkan masa depannya dan memutuskan segala sesuatu yang terbaik untuknya. Namun aku tak bisa melakukan semua itu karena telanjur memperoleh sebuah objek tempat aku bisa menumpahkan seluruh rasa cintaku padanya. Uesugi

Mulai sekarang, lupakan diriku. Jangan pernah merasa bersalah, karena jika kau tidak merasa bahagia, maka semua usahaku akan sia-sia.

What we have here is a very basic problem. The only way to make use of underground resources is to mine them, and if you mine them, they're going to damage the local flora and fauna. That's as true under the water as it is on land, but it hasn't stopped us - that is, mankind - from doing it over and over again. That's a fact. You just need to make a choice.