She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.
Paolo GiordanoAlleen en verloren, vlak bij elkaar, maar niet dicht genoeg om elkaar echt te raken.
Paolo GiordanoIt was another of the things he had left behind, another obvious step in a boy's life that he had decided not to take, so as to stay as far as possible from the machinery of life.
Paolo Giordanothis meant he had reached the end of the track that he had blindly followed from the first year of primary school to graduation.
Paolo GiordanoBy now he had learned. Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains. It had happened with Michela and then with Alice and again now. He recognized them this time: those seconds were there, and he would never make a mistake again.
Paolo GiordanoTwin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you have the patience to go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer. You encounter increasingly isolated primes, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers, and you develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, when you no longer have the desire to go on counting, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.
Paolo GiordanoLas decisiones se toman en unos segundos y se pagan el resto de la vida.
Paolo Giordanoshe and Mattia were united by an invisible, elastic thread, buried under a pile of meaningless things, a thread that could exist only between two people like themselves: two people who had acknowledged their own solitude within the other.
Paolo GiordanoNo, what she had in front of her was a grown-up person who had built a life around a terrifying abyss, on terrain that had already collapsed, and yet who had succeeded, far away from here, among people Alice didn't know.
Paolo GiordanoPerhaps the old lady had kidnapped Michela, had found her in the park and taken her away, because she had a violent desire for a little girl but couldn't have children. Her womb was defective or else she was unwilling to make a bit of room in it.
Just like me, thought Alice.
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