“Sometimes I wish I could describe how wonderful I feel in those few seconds from the time he spreads his arms above his head, as if trying to grab hold of something, to the instant he vanishes into the water.… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Are all things quantifiable, and all numbers fraught with poetic possibility?” — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange,… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.” — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...” — Yôko Ogawa Copy Share Image
The truly correct proof is one that strikes a harmonious balance between strength and flexibility. There are plenty of proofs that are technically correct… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wish I could describe how wonderful I feel in those few seconds from the time he spreads his arms above his head,… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“And it helped that he forgot what he’d taught me before, so I was free to repeat the same question until I” — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
