“Those nights when the future seemed to last only till the morning and he would count off the hours, one by one,… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing. — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits,… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Every time she heard the click of the shutter, followed by that faint rustle, she remembered when she used to catch grasshoppers… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“By now he had learned. Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains. It had happened… — Paolo Giordano 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
Do you really like studying?" Mattia nodded. "Why?" "It's the only thing I know how to do," he said shortly. He wanted… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“As a little girl she had liked looking at her palms against the light, the red peeking through her closed fingers. Once she had… — Paolo Giordano 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 you're both… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians call them twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an… — 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 number that… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that… — Paolo Giordano 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 o seu… — 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 no longer… — Paolo Giordano 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
Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other. — Paolo Giordano 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 and opened… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
