Yōko Ogawa Quotes

Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, alo...

I was impressed by the delicate weaving of the numbers. No matter how carefully you unraveled a thre...

Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the na...

They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat.

...The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the...

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He p...

I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried.

Sometimes I wish I could describe how wonderful I feel in those few seconds from the time he spreads...

When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But childr...

Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" w...

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, w...

It was as if a tiny crack had opened somewhere in him and was growing, tearing him to pieces. If he ...

The blades touched my abdomen. A cold shock ran through me, and my head began to spin. If he had pre...

Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural pheno...

The waves of regret were gentle, but I knew they would ripple on forever.

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afrai...

Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he wa...

Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devi...

His ironing seemed highly rational, with a constant speed that allowed him to get the best results, ...

It was clear that he didn't remember me from one day to the next. The note clipped to his sleeve sim...