It was like being wrapped in a sheet, all white, nothing but white, above, below, all around you. It was the exact opposite of darkness, but it frightened Alice in precisely the same way.
Paolo GiordanoShe remembered lying in the crevasse, buried by snow. She thought of that perfect silence. Also now, like then, no one knew where she was. This time too, no one would come. But she no longer expected them to.
She smiled at the clear sky. With a little effort, she could get up by herself.
Those nights when the future seemed to last only till the morning and he would count off the hours, one by one, by the chimes of distant church bells.
Paolo GiordanoIn 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 GiordanoWe drove around for half an hour in search of two free parking spaces because you couldn't get into a single one," he said, to banish those thoughts.
"It was just an excuse to keep you with me," Alice replied. "But you never understood anything.
Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.
Paolo GiordanoWhen she opened her eyes the sky was still there, with its monotonous and brilliant blue. Not a cloud passed across it.
Paolo GiordanoMattia was startled to find that he still had instincts, buried beneath the dense network of thoughts and abstractions that had woven itself around him.
Paolo GiordanoHow she longed for the uninhibitedness of kids her age, their vacuous sense of immortality.
Paolo GiordanoDo 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.
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