Your Face Tomorrow Volume 2: Dance and Dream by Javier Marías

 

"And of us both they will say: Why all that conflict and struggle, why did they fight instead of just looking and staying still, why were they unable to meet or to go on seeing each other, and why so much sleep, so many dreams, and why that scratch, my pain, my word, your fever, that dance, and all those doubts, all that torment?"