She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings. — Paolo Giordano Emptiness Copy Share Image
In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before. — Paolo Giordano Ends Copy Share Image
“No tenían nada en común, salvo el no querer estar allí ese día.” — Paolo Giordano Amor 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… — Paolo Giordano Enough 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 Alive Copy Share Image
The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are. — Paolo Giordano Action 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… — Paolo Giordano Heart Copy Share Image
“He was dressed anonymously and had the posture of someone who doesn't know how to occupy the space of his own body.” — Paolo Giordano Dressed 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 Abyss Copy Share Image
“His wife was disappearing from life like a wet mark drying on a shirt.” — Paolo Giordano Disappearing Copy Share Image
The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates. — Paolo Giordano Evaporates Copy Share Image
“Those nights when the future seemed to last only till the morning and he would count off the hours, one by one,… — Paolo Giordano Church bells Copy Share Image
“Mattia was startled to find that he still had instincts, buried beneath the dense network of thoughts and abstractions that had woven… — Paolo Giordano Instincts 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
“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
“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
“Perhaps the old lady had kidnapped Michela, had found her in the park and taken her away, because she had a violent… — Paolo Giordano Children Copy Share Image
“The whole house, its very walls, was impregnated with a smell of vitality that he was unused to. He thought about his… — Paolo Giordano Home 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… — Paolo Giordano Little girl 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 Bottle Copy Share Image
“She remembered lying in the crevasse, buried by snow. She thought of that perfect silence. Also now, like then, no one knew… — Paolo Giordano Little Effort Copy Share Image
“For Alice and Mattia, the high school years were an open wound that had seemed so deep that it could never heal.… — Paolo Giordano Empty space Copy Share Image
“Mattia thought there was nothing good about having his mind. That he would happily have unscrewed it and replaced it with a… — Paolo Giordano Cage 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 Immersion 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 Cold Copy Share Image
“Over the past year, since breaking up with Martin, she had begun to notice the foreignness of the place, to suffer from… — Paolo Giordano Heart 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 Capturing 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… — Paolo Giordano Mathematics Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed,… — Paolo Giordano Mathematics 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 Mathematics 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 Chosen 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 Bricks 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
She found herself thinking of how it would feel to be safely trapped in his arms, with no more possibility to choose. — Paolo Giordano Arms Copy Share Image
