With a little effort, she could get up by herself

In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before.

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

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.

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

Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers. You develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.

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.