“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
“She came back to me at 10.01 the next morning, a mirror time, as I'd expected.” — Olivia Sudjic Mirror Copy Share Image
“If everything stays the same, it seems possible for someone to come back.” — 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
“I couldn't decide what kind of person she was, whether she was one of those insects that look exactly like wasps but… — Olivia Sudjic Metaphor Copy Share Image
“Yes, I think he even has a title. He's like son and heir.' I turned her words over in my mind as… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“To me, it was clear proof of the existence of supersymmetry, the idea that every particle has a partner. She was mine.” — Olivia Sudjic Life Copy Share Image
“But you'd hope anyone would feel sympathy if they actually saw someone face to face, pleading for a chance.” — Olivia Sudjic Face to face Copy Share Image
“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to… — Olivia Sudjic Alone Copy Share Image
“The sensation that had plagued me after graduating, of being on the outside of some mystery, peeking in, returned.” — Olivia Sudjic Alienation Copy Share Image
“Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.' My plan was indeed to stay there forever.” — Olivia Sudjic Bittersweet 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 Metaphor 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
“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 Allusion 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 Lies 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 Biracial Copy Share Image
“It is 23.32 p.m. I still believe in symmetry, so this will be the last part. You've reached an end if you… — Olivia Sudjic Beginning Copy Share Image
“I also found it hard to accept the Mizuko I'd known in multiple miniatures was one physical person. I suppose it would… — Olivia Sudjic Father christmas Copy Share Image
“At first, sending the confession by real mail had felt like a genius device. I would not have to sit by my… — Olivia Sudjic Anxiety 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 Apps 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 Connection 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 Connections 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
“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 Death 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 Conversation 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
“Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical… — Olivia Sudjic 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 Before and after 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
“The sky was always full of birdsong and evening smells, piano music from a window, the stone buildings glowing against the blue,… — Olivia Sudjic Birdsong Copy Share Image
“It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.” — Olivia Sudjic Americans 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 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
“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
