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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood,
O cross! too high to be enthrall’d to low.
Or else misgraffed in respect of years,
O spite! too old to be engag’d to young.
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,
O hell! to choose love by another’s eye.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“It’s not a calculation. It’s a smart woman’s instinct for self defense.”
― Keigo Higashino, Salvation of a Saint

“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“I would live your life so much better than you, if I had your face.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“It's basic human nature, this need to look down on someone to feel better about yourself.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“But most of all, I wanted to unlearn all the shame. I wanted to learn how to love and honor myself so I could know how to love and honor my children.”
― Etaf Rum, Mother Country

“Even when you’re at the top, there’s always something higher,”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“You know how the sun rises and sets at a certain time each day? In the same way, all of our lives have a day and night. But it's not set like it is with the sun. Some people walk forever in the sunlight, and some people have to walk through the darkest night their whole lives. When people talk about being afraid, what they're afraid of is that their sun will set. That the light they love will fade.”
― Keigo Higashino, Journey Under the Midnight Sun

“I would propose that every woman has a little darkness under the surface,”
― Keigo Higashino, Journey Under the Midnight Sun

“If we know the truth, there’s nothing to be afraid of,”
― Keigo Higashino, Under the Midnight Sun

“People’s lives never stay the same colour forever. There are times when the colour of life changes completely.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Les délices de Tokyo

“I want you to value life. Yours and others. More than you ever have before.”
― Keigo Higashino, A Midsummer's Equation

“Do you know what accounts for most research delays? Interruptions that have nothing to do with the research whatsoever.”
― Keigo Higashino, A Midsummer's Equation

“Grownups were always breaking promises as if it didn't matter at all.”
― Keigo Higashino, A Midsummer's Equation

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe