“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
“Mattia stayed right where he was, feeling those clothes that weren't his, but with the pleasant sensation of disappearing into them.” — Paolo Giordano Pleasant Sensation 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
Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself. — Paolo Giordano Cage Copy Share Image
“If we couldn't see anything outside the car, if we didn't know we were moving, there would be no way of telling… — Paolo Giordano Raindrops 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 Astronomy 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 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
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
“Er zijn een paar veel belangrijkere dingetjes die je niet weet en het eerste is dat je nooit wordt wat je wil… — Paolo Giordano Hart 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 Ends 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 Invisible Copy Share Image
Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin… — Paolo Giordano Absence 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 Able 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
“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
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 Catching 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 Catching 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
“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 Collapsed 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
“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
“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
“Then he realized it was the most natural thing in the world, which was precisely why he was incapable of it.” — Paolo Giordano Incapable Copy Share Image
“How she longed for the uninhibitedness of kids her age, their vacuous sense of immortality.” — Paolo Giordano Children Copy Share Image
“No pedía mucho; sólo la normalidad que siempre había merecido.” — Paolo Giordano Amor Copy Share Image
but his eyes were too dark for her to make out any spark in them — Paolo Giordano Dark 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
[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent. — Paolo Giordano Behinds Copy Share Image
Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains — Paolo Giordano Choice 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 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
“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 Drove 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 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
“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
“She tried to open the bottle, but the top slipped through her fingers without moving. He took the bottle from her hand… — Paolo Giordano Gaze 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 Conformity Copy Share Image
“Sex is one of the situations where all things submerged in our subconscious come out, all fears, all desires, all the violence,… — Paolo Giordano Easy things Copy Share Image