Quotes by Paolo Giordano

Paolo Giordano

…finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

Hands

Light

Space

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

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Breakup

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All Mattia saw was a shadow moving toward him. He instinctively closed his eyes and then felt Alice’s hot mouth on his, her tears on his cheek, or maybe they weren’t hers, and finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

Eye

Light

Moving

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 thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it’s only at that point that you need a strategy.

Games

Ideas

Moving

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

Dark

Eye

Sparks

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

Choices

Made

Remains

Do you really like studying?” Mattia nodded. “Why?” “It’s the only thing I know how to do,” he said shortly. He wanted to tell her that he liked studying because you can do it alone, because all the things you study are already dead, cold, and chewed over. He wanted to tell her that the pages of the schoolbooks were all the same temperature, that they left you time to choose, that they never hurt you and you couldn’t hurt them either. But he said nothing.

Hurt

Pages

Temperature

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.

Normal

Normal Things

People

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

Confidence

Feelings

Special

His scars were hidden and safe in her hand.

Hands

Safe

Scar

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Alive

Arms

Axes

Break Up

Breakup

Choices

Chosen

Coincidence

Cold

Color

Confidence

Curiosity

Dark

Destiny

Effort

Emptiness

Empty Rooms

Ends

Enough

Eye

Fall

Feelings

Games

Get Up

Girl

Hands

Hurt

Ideas

Ill

Imagine

Knows

Light

Littles

Lost

Love

Made

Memories

Moving

Normal

Normal Things

Numbers

Oxygen

Pages

Past

People

Possibility

Remains

Return

Safe

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Quotes by Paolo Giordano

Paolo Giordano

…finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

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

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 thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it’s only at that point that you need a strategy.

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

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

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.

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

His scars were hidden and safe in her hand.

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