“My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The street had that sad summertime feeling that you want to push on to see why it hurts.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I watched us without interest, heard us only faintly, like strangers below my window.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Instantly I remembered everything I hated about him. But it was, in a way, comforting to know that he had not changed… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“But I can't help thinking of the shock I felt when I finally realised it was winter, on exiting Mizuko's apartment. The… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I don't want to alarm anyone, but everywhere we go I see Alec Baldwin. It's like he's following us.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I had never been tempted to take drugs of any kind and especially not mind-altering ones, but when Mizuko introduced me to… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Yes,' she said, her nod and smile so American and so misleading. 'You are not supposed to be here—you're supposed to be… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be drowning in, was… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Some people in the town did not seem to care about the festival and were watching football on TV. The players were… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Since I've moved here a Chinese takeaway on the main street has ominiously renamed itself from whatever it was before to the… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The whole time I hadn't slept with anyone at university had made it harder and harder to finally do it. Like spending… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“There was never one truth. Even the Higgs could still be used to prove opposing theories, its mass falling between them on… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“She was convinced a word existed, a noun, that meant the loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved—a word for… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“She told me it was unlucky to share a reading with others, but the main point, the one I don't mind mentioning… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“My reflections amount to a love story that is mostly made up, from memories that are mostly false, between people who were… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“There was an extravagant winter storm outside. The tinfoil sky flashed beyond the window, rattling in the frame, and once or twice… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque.… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“He told me things about himself that should have made him sound urbane but did the opposite. He told me, for example,… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The glow of the steetlamps sat heavy and thick above me. As I walked aimlessly, in the direction of downtown, I returned… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“We rarely get the chance to see things anew. I remember a Latin translation that caused me to fail an exam at… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Though I did not know her exact address, that she appeared to live almost within breathing distance of Robin, and that I… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“A neon-pink 3 flickered and instantly disappeared again into the dark. The sight of it on my own device now made me… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach—everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness—that I had grown used to and now… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“But it is difficult to tell whether something is an oppurtunity or a trap when you are put on the spot.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“She was limp and pathetic and woozy and I loved her, I realised, even more because I knew how completely it was… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I asked to use the bathroom and sat, recovering, on the edge of a marble bath on a dais—the kind Greek husbands… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Things which had at first felt like signs, if I analysed them for too long, ended up feeling like the movements of… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I had shelved expectations of another kiss; the intensity of not kissing now worked almost as well—the proximity and denial.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I had to laugh. It was like realising you definitely need to projectile vomit when you thought you had it under… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Man had such impenetrable means to stop the outside world from coming in, and so little to stop our inside world from… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“So there is a before and there is an after. That isn't made up. But it's just a passage of time, no… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
