Paolo Giordano - Time Quotes

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She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there. With detached curiosity she observed the rebirth of her weaknesses, her obsessions. This time she would let them decide, since she hadn't been able to do anything anyway. Against certain parts of yourself you remain powerless, she said to herself, as she regressed pleasurably to the time when she was a girl.

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They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear destiny is to coalesce at some point in space and time.

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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 and paid for in the time that remains.

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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.

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