Mattia Quotes

#1. Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

Paolo Giordano

#2. Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be, as the only true benchmark for everything that had come afterward.

Paolo Giordano

#3. She 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 Giordano

#4. You'll get used to it. In the end you won't even notice it anymore," he said.
"How is that possible? It will always be there, right before my eyes."
"Exactly," said Mattia. "Which is precisely why you won't see it anymore.

Paolo Giordano

#5. Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

Paolo Giordano

#6. If we couldn't see anything outside the car, if we didn't know we were moving, there would be no way of telling whether it was the raindrops' fault or our own, Said Mattia

Paolo Giordano

#7. Mattia stayed right where he was, feeling those clothes that weren't his, but with the pleasant sensation of disappearing into them.

Paolo Giordano

#8. Mattia 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 Giordano

#9. Life was messy, filled with countless worries, questions - what ifs. The real question was not how a person conquered the what ifs, but how one learned to live in spite of them - even when faced with the reality that the answers weren't always pretty.

Angela Lynn

#10. I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

Cameron Mackintosh

#11. If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Zhuangzi

#12. My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

Yunus Emre

#13. This is another thing about the world which is upside-down: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. Down

Walker Percy

#14. I ignored the teasing tone of the man who stood beside me, the four-hundred-year-old Master vampire who ruled Chicago's Cadogan House and the parts of my heart that weren't devoted to great books and good pizza.

Chloe Neill

#15. Those who travel the world hoping to get "blinded by the light" are often blind to the light that's all around them.

Rolf Potts

#16. The best part is seeing my kids grow and become individuals, and the fact that they're happy and well-adjusted.

Martina Mcbride

#17. Life at its best is a series of misadventures with a few sound decisions thrown in just to make it livable.

Sebastian Di Mattia

#18. I've never had a series that's gone past 12 episodes.

Billy Burke

#19. I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

Renee Fleming

#20. You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player.

Arnold Palmer