“ 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 felt to live inside your own head before it began. Everything t… Olivia Sudjic
“ Suddenly I had to laugh. It was like realising you definitely need to projectile vomit when you thought you had it under control in some imprisoning form of public space. Olivia Sudjic
“ To me, it was clear proof of the existence of supersymmetry, the idea that every particle has a partner. She was mine. Olivia Sudjic
“ Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical soul. Olivia Sudjic
“ We had, I felt, bared small pieces of our symmetrical souls to each other, fast, as if playing one of those breathless card games, and I had pretended to be as moved as I had been the first time I unc… Olivia Sudjic
“ She was limp and pathetic and woozy and I loved her, I realised, even more because I knew how completely it was doomed. Olivia Sudjic
“ The glow of the steetlamps sat heavy and thick above me. As I walked aimlessly, in the direction of downtown, I returned to my theories. That Mizuko and I shared the pictorial equivalent of DNA. That… Olivia Sudjic
“ 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. Olivia Sudjic
“ Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's own private world of nonresistance, overwhelmed, like creepin… Olivia Sudjic
“ For a while this seemed to do the trick, and I felt that whatever contamination I had helped to spread, the boundaries I had helped to break, sprinkling flakes of myself all over the surface of New Yo… Olivia Sudjic
