Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Tears are a woman’s weapon. That was Hirai’s philosophy.

She had resigned herself to the fact that one day he would completely forget who she was.

I don't know that I could ever do this

“So I ask you never to forget one thing. You are my wife, and if life becomes too hard for you as my wife, I want you to leave me.

Even if I lose my memory, I want to be together as husband and wife. I cannot stand the idea of us staying together only out of sympathy.

She simply lived for her freedom.

Treat them mean, keep them keen,

It was typical of Hirai to decide on something without feeling the need to think things over first.

People don’t see things and hear things as objectively as they might think. The visual and auditory information that enters the mind is distorted by experiences, thoughts, circumstances, wild fancies, prejudices, preferences, knowledge, awareness, and countless other workings of the mind.