Before The Coffee Gets Cold Quotes

“After a long silence of being lost in her feelings, Hirai managed to mutter just two words 'Thank you'. She didn't know whether that one phrase could contain all these feelings or whether it conveyed how she felt. But every part of her at that moment was invested in those two words.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“Standing there together next to the tracks as the trains roared and whooshed past for what seemed like for ever, Kinuyo hugged Kazu tightly and stroked her head until she stopped crying.
As time passed, the two were swallowed up by the evening darkness.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Cafe

“Some lies are told in order to present yourself in a more interesting or more favourable light; others are told to deceive people. Lies can hurt, but they can also save your skin. Regardless of why they are told, however, lies most often lead to regret.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Tales from the Café / Before Your Memory Fades

“She had turned down approaches from many men, as though flicking away specks of dust.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“The cafe that transports you back in time. It was an incomplete memory, but she remembered that key phrase clearly.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“There tends to be, in any movie or novel about time travel, some rule saying, “Don’t go meddling in anything that is going to change the present. For example, going back and preventing your parents marrying or meeting would erase the circumstances of your birth and cause your present self to vanish.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“The first rule was: The only people you can meet while in the past are those who have visited the cafe.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold