Keigo Higashino

After that, Togashi changed. Or maybe it was just that the real person he had always been finally came to the surface.

It’s not your fault. It was all his fault. He was gone, history! But he kept coming back, tormenting you, and me … You shouldn’t have to go to jail for him.”

“Murder is murder. Everything else is just details.

Without people to question the status quo, how can we ever hope to arrive at truly rational decisions?

The detective had always thought of his friend as the genius, but he supposed that even when you were at the top, there was always something higher.

men who were good listeners and truly cared about other people’s problems generally came from happy homes.

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

all they were able to come up with was that they ‘just didn’t like him.’ It was just hate. Pure, simple malice.

“It wasn’t easy, was it? I can’t say whether it was bad luck, a lack of talent, or a mix of both, but you never realized your dream. When your body began to fall apart around you, you realized that you never would.

The relationship between teacher and student is based on illusion. The teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What’s important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we’re doing is playing at education.”

been enough to dispel Kaga’s suspicions, then he was onto my trick.