Quotes by : Yōko Ogawa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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