Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

“Well, surviving alone is much the same as dying alone, don’t you think?”

“You should be proud of yourself for sticking with it and never giving up. You were impressive in your persistence. It didn’t happen by magic!

You have what you have today because you never gave up telling yourself that you had to be happy.”

People’s true feelings are not in plain sight. The other person might not be thinking anything, but there is a tendency to just assume what the other is feeling without reaching out and asking.

an energy that we call hope.

Inside every person is an inherent capability to make it through any kind of difficulty.

no matter how difficult life seemed, it could be completely turned around by a single epiphany.

She’s the type of person who thinks too much about the other person’s feelings and suppresses her own.

how important the ordinary life that we take for granted is and how much happiness can be experienced from having someone you care about by your side. Things that you put off saying until tomorrow are sometimes never said.

Something I strongly believe is that we mustn’t allow the death of a person to be the cause of unhappiness. The reason for that is simple: if we let everyone who dies be a cause for unhappiness, that would mean people are being born to become unhappy. But the opposite in fact is true. People are always born for the sake of happiness.