If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
You must never forget it if that's an important memory to you. Especially when a person dies, he can only live in the memories of others.
time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.
to keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be. " - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan
Detectives are only human; we're not Gods that know everything. When detectives tell their theory, in reality, most are rather anxious. Thinking that there's always possibility that they could have missed something, somewhere. . . But in return, the excitement you experience when your theory's smack bang correct is twice as great!
Don't judge from the outside. Like any beautiful rose has thorns. . . the more a person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.
No matter how well you think you've hidden, you'll always leave behind a trace. And the more you try to hide that trace, the more obvious and troublesome it will become.
The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.
The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of a short story, a feat that only the bravest and most talented of us can manage. In Brazil, Jesse Lee Kercheval proves, yet again, that she is exactly the right writer for the job. A wild American picaresque, Brazil snaps along briskly, yet feels full-fleshed, and brims with a sly wit and grace.
Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.
My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz. " And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.