She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

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.

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.

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

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

She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

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