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"We’d been so close as children. But we aren’t children any more. Maybe now we needed to yearn for one another a little. I mean, so that we wouldn’t just begin playing together out of old habit. I wanted you to discover me all
over again. I wanted you to recognise me, the way I’d recognised you."

"It put me in mind of a line from the Danish poet Piet Hein: He, who never lives for
the moment, never lives. So what of you?
I was alive then, and it was high time, for I had never lived before."

Seven years ago, I highlighted this passage when I first read this book. Reading it again now feels like receiving a letter from my past self — a message I didn't know I needed, arriving at exactly the right time.