Mattia's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Sebastian Di Mattia

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

Paolo Giordano

#5. Meditative prayer like that we experienced in the labyrinth resonates with hearts of emerging generations.

Dan Kimball

#6. Your actions reveal your thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#7. I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

John Malkovich

#8. Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#9. 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

#10. Love exposes you, makes you vulnerable and kills the personas you built on top of your true self.

Suketu Mehta

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Paolo Giordano