Quote by Paolo Giordano (b. 1982)

• Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

• The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

• All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

• You can fall ill with just a memory.

• Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

• He felt a furious sense of powerlessness, because he played no part in Alice's life, but by god she did in his, like a daughter whose name he hadn't been able to choose.