"'I think I began to like you even when we bumped into each other on the Frogner tram,' she said. 'Like you again, you might say, but now in a totally new way. Then we met a few times subsequently. But I thought we could stand being away for six months. I thought that maybe we needed it. 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 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. That was why I didn't let on who I was.'"

-Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl