“Every time she heard the click of the shutter, followed by that faint rustle, she remembered when she used to catch grasshoppers… — Paolo Giordano Little girl 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 Love 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 Prime Number 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
“He collected the stories of people like himself, mostly keeping silent and listening. He slowly discovered that the stories were similar, that… — Paolo Giordano Keeping silent Copy Share Image
She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings. — Paolo Giordano Emptiness 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
“Se había atado a él con la obstinación con que uno se ata a las cosas que lo perjudican.” — 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 Ends 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
“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 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
“Mattia was startled to find that he still had instincts, buried beneath the dense network of thoughts and abstractions that had woven… — Paolo Giordano Philosophy of Mind 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
“How she longed for the uninhibitedness of kids her age, their vacuous sense of immortality.” — Paolo Giordano Children 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
Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains — Paolo Giordano Choice 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
“Then he realized it was the most natural thing in the world, which was precisely why he was incapable of it.” — Paolo Giordano 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
“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
“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
but his eyes were too dark for her to make out any spark in them — Paolo Giordano Dark 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 Copy Share Image