“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
“It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I became convinced that I was being watched. Because self was still leaking everywhere, a part of me began to think it… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“It was to do with the glazed look that always comes over me when faced with somebody who has offended or hurt me and… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“That night I dreamt about the roses laid at the wrong feet—the feet of the nurse. Each bit of the dream was like a… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“I saw a doctor. I went in case there were any remnants of the summer inside me—sticky, slender fish bones that needed to be… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach—everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness—that I had grown used to and now thought of… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“A neon-pink 3 flickered and instantly disappeared again into the dark. The sight of it on my own device now made me sick. I… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“I felt my own self-sufficiency, my own Walden Pond, seeping out of me as if I'd sprung a leak. Self soaked into everything around… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“ Roses are like kamikaze love pilots. Roses are like suicide love bombers. ” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“But you'd hope anyone would feel sympathy if they actually saw someone face to face, pleading for a chance.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque. With this… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“Begin at the beginning. Know nothing. Tabula rasa. At the same time, part of me wanted to distinguish myself. To let her sense the… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to be by… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
“It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share
