The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #3)
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“That’s what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.”
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One thing Yasuko had discovered during her time working as a hostess was that men who were good listeners and truly cared about other people’s problems generally came from happy homes.
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“Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?
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“She was a hostess at a nightclub.
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annoying for stigmatizing woman
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What better accomplice than someone no one else knows you have anything to do with?”
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A HINT!
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In any case, I wouldn’t be stupid enough to kill someone just because a beautiful woman asked me to.
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so we do have moron here....
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CEKIKIKAN 🤣
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Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you’ll fail to see what’s right under your nose.”
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“I recall you posing a question to me before. You asked which was more difficult, formulating an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem. Remember?”
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“I do. And I have an answer for you. 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.”
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The question of whether or not it’s as easy to determine the accuracy of another person’s results as it is ...
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“You’ve given me your answer,”
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“Now it’s time for you to hear someone else’s solution.”
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STOP THERE, SIR. STOP. STOP. YA ALLAH RESTART GAME PLIS NO MORE DOOMED OLD MEN YAOI.
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“Ishigami…”
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I COULD HEAR THE HEART BREAK YALL
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And if I had known how I would be betrayed, I never would’ve killed that man.”
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HE IS SLIPPING.
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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.”
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Besides, how many people are there who would willingly take the blame for something like murder?
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told him there was no such thing in this world as a useless cog, and that even a cog may decide how it is to be used.”
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“Ishigami was the killer. Not you, or your daughter. He’s not turning himself in for a crime he didn’t commit. He’s guilty of murder.”
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FUUUCCKKKKK WHAT THE HELL IS THAT
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Confinement was like a limitless garden of paradise for him. How short is a lifetime, he thought, compared to the time it will take humankind to find all the rich veins of mathematical ore where they lie sleeping and tease them forth into the world.
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He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them. He knew he should never even attempt to make contact. It was like his relationship with mathematics: it was enough merely to be associated with something so sublime. To seek any kind of acknowledgment would sully its dignity.
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STOP ARE YOU A DUCKIN BUDDHA YOURSELF?!?!! YOU'RE A MAN PLS BEHAVE LIKE A MAN [FRUSTRATED]
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Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone’s savior.
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i understood, sir. okay. respect. i take back my words of you being a moron. 😭😭😭
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Then he whirled around, pressing his fists to his temples, and howled—a long, roaring howl like that of a beast. A cry of confusion and desperation. A cry that tore at the hearts of all who heard it.
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😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭