You can fall ill with just a memory. - Paolo Giordano
Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains. - Paolo Giordano
All he did all afternoon was calculate again and again how many hours of study time he was losing. Thinking about it now, he felt stupid, as we all do when we remember all the time we waste wishing we were somewhere else. - 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 thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy. - Paolo Giordano
The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates. - Paolo Giordano
He felt a furious sense of powerlessness, because he played no part in Alice's life, but by god she did in his, like a daughter whose name he hadn't been able to choose. - Paolo Giordano
She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else. - Paolo Giordano
She was stung by sharp regret thinking about the sheets and tablecloths, so costly and never used due to excessive regard. - Paolo Giordano
Le mancanze si assomigliano un po' tutte. - Paolo Giordano
Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself. - Paolo Giordano