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“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

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

“The present hadn’t changed—but those two people had. Both Kohtake and Hirai returned to the present with a changed heart.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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