Toshikazu Kawaguchi

If you can’t change anything, why would anyone want to go back?

If you could go back, who would you want to meet?

She felt that saying it would be to admit defeat.

learning that she had come from the future, the first thing he had wanted to know was whether he had forgotten her, his wife.

It was as if their time as a couple had reached its end.

I cannot stand the idea of us staying together only out of sympathy.

It is much easier to conceal sadness from a stranger, or from someone you don’t trust.

If you could go back, who would you want to meet

You can go back. It’s true . . . you can go back, but . . .’

‘But . . . ?’

‘When you go back, no matter how hard you try, the present won’t change.’

The present won’t change. This was something Fumiko was totally unprepared for

The woman in the dress gave a slight smile as she quietly closed the book, a novel titled The Lovers.