"Sitting opposite Annie, Mira now wondered if this was also true of herself and Annie, that sometimes a person is meant to move forward in the world with the one they love at a distance, and that the distance is there to make it more beautiful. 

To find the right distance from everything in life is the most important thing. To stand at the right distance, like God standing back from the canvas for you can't see anything if you're too up close, and you can't see anything if you're too far back. 

So that is how she sat with Annie, there in the chocolate shop, across from her at the table. From across the table, Annie had managed to pull Mira back into life-back into this human life."