Toshikazu Kawaguchi Quotes

But finding the cause of a bug is like distilling and removing a drop of ink that has fallen in an Olympic swimming pool.

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

I want my child to be happy. How can such a simple wish be so terribly scary?

If you try to find happiness after this, then this child will have put those seventy days towards making you happy. In that case, its life has meaning. You are the one who is able to create meaning for why that child was granted life. Therefore, you absolutely must try to be happy. The one person who would want that for you the most is that child.

But her parents had underestimated the intricacies of her character. Specifically, she was free-spirited.

Life, too, passes through difficult winters. But after any winter, spring will follow...

But Kazu still goes on believing that, no matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart.

Indecisiveness is self-destructive,

A parent’s love for their child is bottomless. Their children remain children, no matter how old they grow.

Water flows from high places to low places. That is the nature of gravity. Emotions also seem to act according to gravity. When in the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it.

Kohtake, though, liked her coffee hot, even in summer. She liked the aroma of it when it was freshly brewed. She couldn't enjoy iced coffee in the same way. Coffee was far more pleasurable when it was hot.

no matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart.

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.

Water flows from high places to low places. That is the nature of gravity. Emotions also seem to act according to gravity. When I’m the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it. The truth just wants to come flowing out.

At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present does not change.