89 Quotes by Olivia Sudjic about Sympathy
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And yet how treacherous, I thought, after such neutrality, bordering on indifference, and occaisonally open hostility, when the whole city finally seemed alive and tremulous to my touch, a seething structure reaching out to meet me and accommodate my every move, as if I had been expected and was welcome there, that she was the only thing in it that would not respond.
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The street had that sad summertime feeling that you want to push on to see why it hurts.
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I asked to use the bathroom and sat, recovering, on the edge of a marble bath on a dais—the kind Greek husbands are slain in.
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To me, it was clear proof of the existence of supersymmetry, the idea that every particle has a partner. She was mine.
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Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical soul.
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It was to do with the glazed look that always comes over me when faced with somebody who has offended or hurt me and yet whose approval I want.
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I couldn't think of a reply except No, so I said, 'Sure.
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Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.
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Yes,' she said, her nod and smile so American and so misleading. 'You are not supposed to be here—you're supposed to be there.
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