Keigo Higashino

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.

“Murder is murder. Everything else is just details.”

I knew there was no point in thinking about it, yet the regret was hard to keep down

I had no idea what that had to do with anything. Maybe it was just another example of the odd way that detectives saw the world.

“It’s a pun,” he said. “Namiya and nayami, the Japanese word for problems, woes, whatever.”

The General Store That Answers Your Woes.

if you don’t understand something, don’t assume people owe you an explanation—try to figure it out yourself.

His last words: “Thank you for letting me dream.”

sitting beside someone’s sickbed isn’t the only way to care for them.

Thank you for letting me dream.