People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds a…

- Paolo Giordano

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

- Paolo Giordano

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

- Paolo Giordano

[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

- Paolo Giordano

Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.

- 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 by the other's silence.

- Paolo Giordano

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

- Paolo Giordano

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

- Paolo Giordano

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thi…

- Paolo Giordano