Status Updates From Hvad vi ved

"The imagined lords it over the actual . . . The characters we cherish in fiction do not exist . . . [W]e embellish our own histories to make ourselves seem better than we are. Living out our lives within unexamined or contradictory assumptions, we inhabit a fog of dreams and seem to need them."

"But how strange, even awkward, it was to say for the first time 'I love you' to an old friend. It was done, we had crossed the line and made a promise, one that we would have found difficult to define. We would not always be standing here in a rhapsodic state, arms looped around the other's neck, deep in warm clear seawater in beautiful evening sunlight with no one around . . ."