la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son

"All over again I understood how important, how irreplaceable, Sumire was to me. In her own special way she’d kept me tethered to the world. As I talked to her and read her stories, my mind quietly expanded, and I could see things I’d never seen before. Without even trying, we grew close. Like a pair of young lovers undressing in front of each other, Sumire and I exposed our hearts to teach other, an experience I’d never have with anyone else, anywhere. We cherished the time we had together, though we never put into words how very precious it was.
I loved Sumire more than anyone else and wanted her more than anything in the world. And I couldn’t just shelve those feelings, for there was nothing to take their place."

Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami