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They don’t have the same need for closeness. Having the same need for intimacy or distance is important. He wants to be closer than she does. He believes that the person who wants to be the closest, the most intimate, is the person who loves the most, she disagrees, but she can’t get her point acro…

They book a weekend trip to northern Spain to recover. Arnold misses his plane to Oslo, and Ida can hear why in his voice. He denies it, but when their plane to Spain is delayed in Copenhagen due to fog and they are sitting in the airport, drinking, her fears are confirmed and she thinks: he is nev…

Professor Twig starts to cry. At the age of only sixteen he could boast of having read the four great Norwegian writers. ‘Read the four greats!’ he said to his sister, who was studying Home Economics and had been taught that the four greats were onion, leeks, potatoes and carrots. It is not until n…

Close to each other on the plane. Close to each other through the arrivals lounge and out into the air. Close, close to each other through the streets, in cafés, in restaurants. Closer to each other than ever before, we will grow from this, you’ll see. We can only grow closer, more intimate, if tha…

Is he serious? Is that what it looks like to him? That she is flirting, leading people on? Or does he just want to keep her for himself, to control her, because not being able to control her is unbearable for him? If his own emotions have gone haywire, why doesn’t he try to analyse them the way he …