Sometimes I feel embarrassed telling you stuff like that because it just seems stupid. To be honest, I still look up to you a lot,I don't want you to think of me as, I don't know. Deluded.

Sometimes I feel embarrassed telling you stuff like that because it just seems stupid. To be honest, I still look up to you a lot, I don't want you to think of me as, I don't know. Deluded.

If he silently decides not to say something when they’re talking, Marianne will ask ‘what?’ within one or two seconds. This ‘what?’ question seems to him to contain so much: not just the forensic attentiveness to his silences that allows her to ask in the first place, but a desire for total communication, a sense that anything unsaid is an unwelcome interruption between them.

...our relationship was like a Word document that we were writing and editing together, or a long private joke which nobody else could understand.

Well, but what does it mean for a relationship to 'work out'? He said. It was never going to be something conventional. If two people make each other happy then it's working.