The Devotion of Suspect X Quotes

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

“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.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Watching people is a bit of a hobby of mine. It's quite fascinating, really.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

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

“Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“he presented me with a mathematical conundrum,” he said. “It’s a famous one, the P = NP problem. 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.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“That's what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Kusanagi had met plenty of good, admirable people who’d been turned into murderers by circumstance. There was something about them he always seemed to sense, an aura that they shared. Somehow, their transgression freed them from the confines of a mortal existence, allowing them to perceive the great truths of the universe. At the same time, it meant they had one foot in forbidden territory. They straddled the line between sanity and madness.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Tunnel vision is no way to make it as a researcher. Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you’ll fail to see what’s right under your nose.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“It seems to me that you have two options: hide the fact that anything happened, or hide the fact that you had anything to do with it.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“The sun had set. Night had come to the city. How easy it would be if everything went dark, and the world ended right here, right now. What a relief it would be.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“You’re familiar with the P = NP problem, right?” Yukawa asked from behind him. Ishigami looked around. “You’re referring to the question of whether or not it is as easy to determine the accuracy of another person’s results as it is to solve the problem yourself—or, failing that, how the difference in difficulty compares. It’s one of the questions the Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a prize to solve.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“A veces, una persona puede salvar a otra por el hecho mero de existir.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Con người, đôi khi, chỉ cần sống một cách đáng tự hào cũng là đang giúp ai đó rồi.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Murder isn't the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Việc nghĩ ra một bài toán vô cùng khó và việc giải bài toán đó, việc nào khó hơn?”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Aku tahu di dunia ini kadang kita harus menerima fakta yang tidak ingin kita percayai”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“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.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“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.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Menurutku Kuniaki Kudo pria yang bisa dipercaya. Jika kau menikah dengannya, kau dan Misato pasti akan sangat berbahagia. Mulai sekarang, lupakan diriku. Jangan pernah merasa bersalah, karena jika kau tidak merasa bahagia, maka usahaku akan sia-sia.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Ishigami’s design. Yet it all still seemed too unreal to be true. Killing a person to hide a murder – who would think of something like that? Of course, that’s the point. He didn’t want us to think of it.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Murder is murder. Everything else is just details”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

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

“Pada era manapun, keberadaan ilmuan selalu dianggap mencurigakan oleh orang lain”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“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.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Mulai sekarang, lupakan diriku. Jangan pernah merasa bersalah, karena jika kau tidak merasa bahagia, maka semua usahaku akan sia-sia.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you’ll fail to see what’s right under your nose.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“The Imperial University library was a substantial three-story building. When Kusanagi was a student, he had only visited it two or three times at most. He guessed that additions had been built since he’d left, but he couldn’t exactly remember what the place had looked like before. The entire edifice could have been rebuilt and he wouldn’t have known the difference.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“I hear you. Still, I can’t imagine it’s all that pleasant having a murder suspect in the neighborhood.” “It wasn’t me she murdered, so I don’t see how it’s any of my business.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X