89 Quotes by Olivia Sudjic

I was worried that if I told her the story, she would identify with it too much. That her sympathy, however well-meaning, would make me possessive, angry again. She was always making things personal, seeing only their relationship to her rather than what was complex about them.

Instantly I remembered everything I hated about him. But it was, in a way, comforting to know that he had not changed at all.

If everything stays the same, it seems possible for someone to come back.

I watched us without interest, heard us only faintly, like strangers below my window.

Man had such impenetrable means to stop the outside world from coming in, and so little to stop our inside world from surging out, wrestling any foreign object into submission.

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 come back to where you started. I also remain superstitious about certain numbers. I use 23 and 32 for my lottery tickets, for example. It extends to dates. I still see signs.

Since I've moved here a Chinese takeaway on the main street has ominiously renamed itself from whatever it was before to the Golden Bowl, but other than that, the landscape is the last place on earth that might call Mizuko to mind.

But I do not know the people I am crying for anymore. I don't let myself sympathise—I think it would be wrong.

I don't know, I can't know, but I almost did.