I suddenly felt that I'd be happy with him.
You're always bringing up etiquette at every turn...expecting men to be kind to women by law or something, but you're mistaken Men and women should have respect for each other, that's what etiquette really means.
- Only married people understand.
- Once you're hitched, it's too late to understand.
- Single people don't know what real happiness is, they have no right to talk.
- You always go on about happiness, but it's just anticipation, like before you go to the races, planning which horse to bet on then dreaming about how you’ll spend your winnings.
- My friends are funny. We always split into two groups...the married and the single. Aya got all worked up again.
- How come?
- Because the married ones look down on us for being single.
I didn't think you were the type who could ever leave Tokyo. I imagined you'd live Western-style,with a flower garden...listening to Chopin, and in your tiled kitchen, you'd havea refrigerator filled with Coca-Cola. And when I'd visit, you'd meet me on a covered porch...wearing a white sweater, playing with a Scottish terrier...and you'd greet me over a hedge, "Hello, how are you?"