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“I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.”

Storm Upset Sympathy Crying Simile Shouting Olivia Sudjic

Book:Sympathy

Source: Sympathy

“Things which had at first felt like signs, if I analysed them for too long, ended up feeling like the movements of my own reflection in dark glass.”

Sympathy Simile Signs Olivia Sudjic

Book:Sympathy

Source: Sympathy

“When she did walk, to the bathroom between the chairs and the customers leaning back in them, oblivious to her manoeuvres, the sight felt strangely moving and profound, like a baby, or a veteran getting out of a wheelchair, or a deer in snow. That is perhaps overdoing it. Maybe I didn't quite know that at the time, but it was striking. If you have not seen a deer in snow, I mean: moving with precision, but as if she might leap away in a completely different direction at any moment.”

Description Sympathy Simile Olivia Sudjic

Book:Sympathy

Source: Sympathy

“The sky was always full of birdsong and evening smells, piano music from a window, the stone buildings glowing against the blue, like cream poured over something tart and hot.”

Description Sympathy Simile Olivia Sudjic

Book:Sympathy

Source: Sympathy

“When I read it now it's like I have broken into a reality that is not mine, and when I step out of it, as if I had removed my headphones and heard the city again, it is easy to close the door behind me.”

Sympathy Simile Olivia Sudjic

Book:Sympathy

Source: Sympathy

“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 hyperlink. I pressed on one, wanting answers, and it took me to another. I could never get to the meaning at the bottom of any of the bits. When I reached for the petals of the roses, I was touching a metal seatbelt buckle in a coach, driving by night through a remote place, with a band of mist running parallel to the glass I leant against.”

Dream Technology Dreams Computer Sympathy Simile Olivia Sudjic

Book:Sympathy

Source: Sympathy

“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 York like so much fish food, had been forgiven.”

Damage New York City Sympathy Forgiven Simile Olivia Sudjic

Book:Sympathy

Source: Sympathy