The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)

by Keigo Higashino

‘Trust me. Logical thinking will get us through this.’

‘That’s what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.’

‘Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?

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.

Theories and logic are all very well, but intuition’s one of the best weapons in a detective’s arsenal.’

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

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.’

‘There are some things in life that we have to accept as truth, even though we don’t want to believe them. I know that.’

She had never encountered such deep devotion. She hadn’t even thought it existed.

But maybe, Yasuko thought, enduring that guilt is a way of doing penance.

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