She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn't me, and you weren't you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn't see things. What we did—we made each other up."

Brick Lane: A Novel (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2008) - ISBN: 9781416584070