We are made not only of what we did and accomplished. We’re also made up of all the things we discarded, all the things we failed to do, all the things we did not dare do. That’s part of us. All the things you renounced. The woman you didn’t marry. The woman who said, ‘No, I don’t love you’.
Javier Marias, “The Full English” by Robert Collins, The Sunday Times Feb. 14th, 2016
