Silent Parade (Detective Galileo, #4)

by Keigo Higashino

You only say you want to kill someone when you know you can’t really do it.”

“It’s something I see all the time when my students do experiments,” Yukawa said. “They usually know what the result of the experiment is supposed to be. Because of that, they conduct the experiment specifically to produce the desired result. They do things like deliberately misreading the numeric display on the measuring apparatus, either on the high or the low side. They’re happy to end up with a result close to what they wanted and they don’t even realize that they’re guilty of committing a very basic error. If you want to conduct an experiment properly, you’re much better off not knowing what sort of result it’s going to produce.

When the shock to the emotions is too great, he realized, people can no longer show their reactions.

What if you really do know the answers but you just don’t know that you do?”

“Why do we all work so hard to realize our dreams? Because we think our dreams are going to make us happy. For me, though, right now, all I need to be happy is to be with Tomoya. What’s the point of me sacrificing my happiness now just to get my hands on some other form of happiness in the future?”

“The important thing is this: What you believe to be the truth and the actual truth are not necessarily the same thing. Until you know the difference, you can’t make the choice that will decide your fate.”