Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal… — Paolo Giordano Heart Copy Share Image
[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent. — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Why did you choose to stay here?" (...) "I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here. — Paolo Giordano Oxygen Copy Share Image
“Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.” — Paolo Giordano Break up Copy Share Image
“Se había atado a él con la obstinación con que uno se ata a las cosas que lo perjudican.” — Paolo Giordano Amor Copy Share Image
Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence. — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“He opened his mouth to reply that feeling special is the worst kind of cage that a person can build for himself,… — Paolo Giordano Cage Copy Share Image
She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else. — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“It was like being wrapped in a sheet, all white, nothing but white, above, below, all around you. It was the exact… — Paolo Giordano Darkness Copy Share Image
“She couldn't remember what they had talked about, only that she had looked at her rapt from a place just behind her… — Paolo Giordano Heart Copy Share Image
“Mattia sentiu os cabelos dela a fazerem-lhe cócegas no pescoço. Sentiu o fino intervalo de ar que os separava a encher-se com… — Paolo Giordano Amor Copy Share Image
“Numbers are everywhere," said Denis. "They're always the same, aren't they?" "Yes." "But Alice is only here." "Yes." "So you've already made… — Paolo Giordano Mathematics Copy Share Image
“Er zijn een paar veel belangrijkere dingetjes die je niet weet en het eerste is dat je nooit wordt wat je wil… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
You'll get used to it. In the end you won't even notice it anymore," he said. "How is that possible? It will… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . .… — Paolo Giordano Choice Copy Share Image
“It was another of the things he had left behind, another obvious step in a boy's life that he had decided not… — Paolo Giordano Left behind Copy Share Image
“He collected the stories of people like himself, mostly keeping silent and listening. He slowly discovered that the stories were similar, that… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
All Mattia saw was a shadow moving toward him. He instinctively closed his eyes and then felt Alice’s hot mouth on his,… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“With photography Alice liked the actions more than the results. She liked opening the back of the camera and unrolling the new… — Paolo Giordano Cinema Copy Share Image
“She tried to open the bottle, but the top slipped through her fingers without moving. He took the bottle from her hand… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even… — Paolo Giordano Ciphers Copy Share Image
She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“She was sleeping a sleep that wasn't her own and the gadgets to which she was connected didn't make a sound.” — Paolo Giordano Sleep Copy Share Image
“When she opened her eyes the sky was still there, with its monotonous and brilliant blue. Not a cloud passed across it.” — Paolo Giordano Blue Copy Share Image
Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself. — Paolo Giordano Cage Copy Share Image
“Mattia stayed right where he was, feeling those clothes that weren't his, but with the pleasant sensation of disappearing into them.” — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“this meant he had reached the end of the track that he had blindly followed from the first year of primary school… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“That evening, getting up from the table, she had crossed the invisible boundary beyond which things start working by themselves.” — Paolo Giordano Art work Copy Share Image
She found herself thinking of how it would feel to be safely trapped in his arms, with no more possibility to choose. — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“Als ik er nu aan terugdenk, was dat het meest verbluffende van de laatste dagen die ik met mijn vader doorbracht: ik… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“From the stereo came music that Alice didn't recognize, but it wasn't there to be listened to, just to complete a perfect… — Paolo Giordano Music Copy Share Image
All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because… — Paolo Giordano Chess Copy Share Image
Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be,… — Paolo Giordano Breakup Copy Share Image
“No, what she had in front of her was a grown-up person who had built a life around a terrifying abyss, on… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“They had passed through them in a state of apnoea, he rejecting the world and she feeling rejected by it, and they… — Paolo Giordano Heart Copy Share Image
“There had been that time and there had been an infinite number of others, which Alice no longer remembered, because the love… — Paolo Giordano Evaporates Copy Share Image
“We drove around for half an hour in search of two free parking spaces because you couldn't get into a single one,"… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“she and Mattia were united by an invisible, elastic thread, buried under a pile of meaningless things, a thread that could exist… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image