“The street had that sad summertime feeling that you want to push on to see why it hurts.” — 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
“My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I watched us without interest, heard us only faintly, like strangers below my window.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“If everything stays the same, it seems possible for someone to come back.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“She came back to me at 10.01 the next morning, a mirror time, as I'd expected.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“It was to do with the glazed look that always comes over me when faced with somebody who has offended or hurt… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The emotional question became why Susy had rejected me. I was interested in that shift, from actively wanting to actively not wanting.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The sky was always full of birdsong and evening smells, piano music from a window, the stone buildings glowing against the blue,… — 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
“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
“Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I saw a doctor. I went in case there were any remnants of the summer inside me—sticky, slender fish bones that needed… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Or maybe it was already too late; you only get one first love. She was mine, but I had not been hers.… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I'm going to have to get an entirely new social scene if I want to avoid him,' she said, hunting for evidence… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“So there was no explicit bonding. Certainly not the kind you might be expecting if you like films like The Parent Trap… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if,… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Mizuko wonders if the GPS is still monitoring their progress. She has the distinct feeling of being watched by something in the… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I felt my own self-sufficiency, my own Walden Pond, seeping out of me as if I'd sprung a leak. Self soaked into… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“For a while this seemed to do the trick, and I felt that whatever contamination I had helped to spread, the boundaries… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“When she did walk, to the bathroom between the chairs and the customers leaning back in them, oblivious to her manoeuvres, the… — 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
“Have you ever truly, keenly felt like you don't know who you are? Do you ever do something and think, Who is… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The situation got worse when they came back to her apartment after and someone put on music. An advert interrupted during a… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“It's hard to explain how an infatuation actually starts. It's a state so all-encompassing that it's almost impossible to remember how it… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“He had deduced also that I was quirky and promised me that he was too.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
