Paolo Giordano

She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

— Paolo Giordano

In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before.

— Paolo Giordano

His scars were hidden and safe in her hand.

— Paolo Giordano

“No pedía mucho; sólo la normalidad que siempre había merecido.”

— Paolo Giordano

You can fall ill with just a memory.

— Paolo Giordano

With a little effort, she could get up by herself

— Paolo Giordano

“as if moved by a breeze that only she could feel.”

— Paolo Giordano

Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains

— Paolo Giordano

“His wife was disappearing from life like a wet mark drying on a shirt.”

— Paolo Giordano

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

“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

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

— Paolo Giordano

Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal…

— Paolo Giordano

“How she longed for the uninhibitedness of kids her age, their vacuous sense of immortality.”

— Paolo Giordano

The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are.

— Paolo Giordano

“Then he realized it was the most natural thing in the world, which was precisely why he was incapable of it.”

— Paolo Giordano

“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

They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits,…

— Paolo Giordano

“As a little girl she had liked looking at her palms against the light, the red peeking through her closed fingers. Once…

— Paolo Giordano

“By now he had learned. Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains. It had happened…

— Paolo Giordano

“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

“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

“It was like being wrapped in a sheet, all white, nothing but white, above, below, all around you. It was the exact…

— Paolo Giordano

“The whole house, its very walls, was impregnated with a smell of vitality that he was unused to. He thought about his…

— Paolo Giordano

“Every time she heard the click of the shutter, followed by that faint rustle, she remembered when she used to catch grasshoppers…

— Paolo Giordano

Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin…

— Paolo Giordano

“He collected the stories of people like himself, mostly keeping silent and listening. He slowly discovered that the stories were similar, that…

— Paolo Giordano

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

“Over the past year, since breaking up with Martin, she had begun to notice the foreignness of the place, to suffer from…

— Paolo Giordano

“Mattia thought there was nothing good about having his mind. That he would happily have unscrewed it and replaced it with a…

— Paolo Giordano

“For Alice and Mattia, the high school years were an open wound that had seemed so deep that it could never heal.…

— Paolo Giordano

“She remembered lying in the crevasse, buried by snow. She thought of that perfect silence. Also now, like then, no one knew…

— Paolo Giordano

“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed,…

— Paolo Giordano

“Mathematicians call them twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is…

— Paolo Giordano

“Sex is one of the situations where all things submerged in our subconscious come out, all fears, all desires, all the violence,…

— Paolo Giordano

“Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even…

— Paolo Giordano

“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed,…

— Paolo Giordano

but his eyes were too dark for her to make out any spark in them

— Paolo Giordano

“No tenían nada en común, salvo el no querer estar allí ese día.”

— Paolo Giordano

It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.

— Paolo Giordano