“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 Life 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
“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
In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before. — Paolo Giordano Ends 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 Feeling special Copy Share Image
The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates. — Paolo Giordano Love Copy Share Image
“His wife was disappearing from life like a wet mark drying on a shirt.” — Paolo Giordano Life 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
“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 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
Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself. — Paolo Giordano Cages 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
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
“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 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
“Over the past year, since breaking up with Martin, she had begun to notice the foreignness of the place, to suffer from… — Paolo Giordano Psychology 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
“No tenían nada en común, salvo el no querer estar allí ese día.” — Paolo Giordano Encontrar 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
“He opened his mouth to reply that feeling special is the worst kind of cage that a person can build for himself,… — Paolo Giordano Feeling special 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
“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
“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
