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“Though, of course - if you were here, wouldn't he still be here as well?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Sometimes life is stranger than fiction, but sometimes it's incomparable in other ways. Sometimes it's heaven that the false fire of imagination could never capture.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present does not change. So it raises the question: just what is the point of that chair?”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“Because he deserved happiness. We aren’t guaranteed it, none of us are, but he deserved it.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life